Need to make dailies of HDV footage

I have 3 hours of HDV footage that I need to put to tape, DVD, or whatever.
everything I try is telling me it's going to take 20 hours.
I tried exporting 3 1 hour sequences using compressor. i've tried just going back to tape. why is everything taking so long. I need this to work overnight. I am.
The latest thing I tried was copying the footage to a DV sequence. now I'm rendering that and it's saying 10 hours. If that works I can dump it onto a 184 minute DVCAM tape and everything will be fine. but this seems like a lot of work. am I doing something wrong?

Jake,
20 hours does seem like an awful lot. Are you trying to render in the timeline, and its taking hours, or are you rendering inside compressor?
When I need to get something off fast, I just edit to tape on a miniDV. Is there a reason you can't do this? If that won't do, I use File>Export>Using Quicktime Conversion and burn it onto a DVD. It's the fastest method I know of.
I'm guessing since these are dailies that they don't need to be of superior quality, that said the above Quicktime process isn't exactly great in terms of quality. But some footage to show is better than no footage to show. Anyway I'm just guessing you are looking for solutions ASAP and I'm sure someone else will have better solutions, but until then, maybe this will suffice for you?
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