FCPX 10.0.3 Export times are huge....

Is anyone having issues with FCPX export times?
I just tried to export VIA Share H.264, a 10 minute FullHD clip shot with an HXR-NX5U. They were imported directly from the memory card and encoded by FCPX itself.
The media on the timeline, I would say is heavy. It is full of text and motion graphics for the first 60 seconds and the rest are clips with 2 to 3 effects each, transitions and music clips.
I am running the latest versions of OSX and FCPX on the latest iMac fully loaded. 3.4 i7, 16GB, 2GB GPU.
However and regardless of the wealth of information that are considered variables, which I indicated above - know this - a project that was extremely similar to the above in all aspects in FCPX 10.0.2 and OSX Lion 10.7.2 would have been spit out in under 20 minutes to an h.264.
I'm wondering why this is happening and if anyone else is having this change?

Hey Macvideo HD,
Thanks for your input here.... Didn't notice any real changes with 10.0.2 to 10.0.3 in terms of export speeds. The weird thing is that some times it seems that FCP X runs better one day than the next. I'm constantly repairing disk permissions and making sure I'm not doing any other items when I'm exporting.
I have a project (28 mins) open now that I started last night to render and its still rendering. Roughly 30% left to render the whole timeline. So roughly 16 hours to render thus far....
I agree with you the Caldigit is working well....
Good question regarding how long Compressor will take to export with background rendering turned off.... Also, I'll have to export using H.264 and compare the two times.
I agree with you that reinstalling Lion will be my last option.
NOTE: did find out some help to cut down the exporting times using Compressor.... When you send the timeline (project) to compressor click on the menu APPLE QMASTER. Select Share This Computer Next click the box Share this computer and select as QuickCluster with services. Next under the Services section click on the Compressor box and then click Options a drop down menu will appear and allow you to select how many processors you want to use. I selected 16! I have noticed a big change in speed improvment's to export 3 minute timelines in roughly 10-12 minutes :-) When it was 30 minutes in FCP X. Now I have to try it with the 28min timeline. Also, I'm exporting using the ProRes 422 codec.
Thanks again for your input!
Mark

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