Extremely long encoding times with compressor 3.0.5 - never happened before...

Hi
I've encoded 20min of ProRes 422 HD sequence on Compressor 3.0.5 to H.264 at 20000 kps.
It took my Dual 2.3 G5 PowerMac 9 hours. No filters or frame controls were used.
I remembered that last time I did it it (a year ago and since then I re-installed osX 10.5 and FCS 6) it took a third of the time. I didn't change a thing.
Compressor is acting really strang as I don't have any of the presets in compressor.
Tried to remove FCS and re-install it and its still the same - very slow...
Does it sound like a hardware problem ? My G5 is 5 years old and preformed flawlessly till now.
Thanks
N.

It sounds like you used the Send to Compressor workflow. If you did, try exporting a QuickTime movie, current settings. Then bring that into Compressor to make your files for DVD SP.
Russ

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