Extremely slow render and export from FCP

I have a sequence of about 37 minutes in FCP (Studio 2) that i'm trying to export using compressor and its estimating 13 and a half hours. I have tried just a quicktime movie export but its estimating just as long. I changed the compressor settings to a single pass 6.9bit rate. I checked the computer stats at the processor is 84% idle with 5.54gb of unused RAM, surely it should not take that long!
Anyone any suggestions?
I'm using a Mac Pro 2 x 2.8ghz Quad-Core Xeon with 8GBRAM

It will take that long if you are going to h.264.
And if you are starting with something like HDV.
What are you starting with and going to?

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