Need to convert over video 100 files to iPod quality files

i have over 100 .mov files that i need to convert to mp4 in order to play on my Palm Treo 700p...
each original file is approx 78 to 81 megs... about 39 to 40 minutes of video. i am converting ONE file now and it told me it would take about 1 hour 55 minutes to convert it to the "convert to iPod" preset
at that rate, it will take forever to convert all these files... is there a faster way? or better settings to use in quicktime?
they don't have to be extremely high quality, they are lessons for bible classes i am taking, but i'd like the audio to be decent and for the video to be clear and not fuzzy...
thanks for any help you can provide.

I have both VisualHub and MPEG Streamclip.
At the moment, I only use VisualHub to handle a few quirky .mpg files which MPEG Streamclip had problems with (data breaks that aren't fixed) and FLV file conversion (because I don't have the new beta version of S'clip, which supports FLV).
But as Rick said, MPEG Streamclip works wonders for pretty much everything else. I still would recommend that first before VisualHub.
Steve

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