MOV to Blu-ray Taking forever to burn

Hello - I am currently on FCP7.
I am editing 1920x1080 footage.
Exporting to MOV
Dropping the MOV to Toast 10
For some reason. Toast 10 is taking almost 24 hours to burn a 2 hour blu-ray.
I was wondering what method are you guys using to create a blu-ray disc.
Thanks for your help.

Some forms of HD can require a lot of time to encode, but it's hard to say in this case...
MOV (or mov) is a generic tag used with most QuickTime codecs, so it is as specific as saying "clip." Before anyone is going to be able to help you, you need to post some specifics. Open your MOV in QuickTime player and Get Info (⌘+i) and it will give you all the gory details.
My guess is that Toast is having to transcode your output codec to one that is supported for Blu-ray before it can begin the actual burn. If your footer info is correct, the problem is aggrevated by a slow machine and perhaps a slow hard drive.
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