Loaded FCS2 and Compressor time seems a lot longer

Loaded a 73 minute HDV (1440X1080) program and sent to Compressor for a MPEG-2 fastest time DVD. 6 hours later it was still compressing. Is this normal? Normally a 73 minute SD (720X480) would only take a little more than an hour. Any suggestions?

HDV compression for standard DVD takes time. The high quality settings for me run about 8 times the length of the program, with only a few simple edits/transitions, etc., so the times you're running into seem pretty normal.
An 8 core Mac Pro might speed things up a bit. . .

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