Using Compressor to make smallest possible files for transcriber

Question

I asked a question related to this a few days ago on the FCP discussion. I thought it was answered, but now I ran into a new issue.
I shot on the AF100 and transcoded via Log and Tranfer to ProRes.
Now I need to make these clips as small as possible and, ideally, stamped with TC so that I can send them to my transcribers, all of whom are working on PCs.
I decided to use the H.264 codec that's customized for iPod because that seemed like it would make a very small file. I used the filters in compressor to stamp on TC. The result is beautiful- a 50 gig file down to 234megs with timcode stamped on it. The problem: it took all night to compress a one hour interview. I have 20 hours and the project needs to be submitted by the 15th of April.
Can anyone suggest a workflow that will be faster? I am thinking of going with just audio, but is it possible to get my TC stamped onto an audio file? Even if I can't get the TC stamped on, can I create an audio file of any of these following formats, which are the formats that my transcriber's software can read:
# WMV (Windows Media Video)
# RM (Real Video/Real Media)
# IVF (Indeo Video Format)
# MTS (Hi Def Video Format - AVCHD created by Digital Video Cameras)
# MPEG (Industry-Standard PC Video format)
# MPG (Industry-Standard PC Video format)
# VOB (Video Object files that are used on DVD movies and burned movie disks)
# MP4 (Compressed Video Standard used on PCs and IPODS)
# F4V (Flash MP4 video format)
# MOV (Apple Quicktime Movie format)
# FLV (Flash Video)
I know there's a template for AAC files in compressor -- is that a .mov format?
I know this is really basic but I'm really pressed for time right now and would really appreciate any input. The smaller the files come out the better (slow internet where I am in the world right now!) Thanks very much.

Answer 1

Hello,
You may want to read up on using a QuickCluster on your MacPro, which should help speed up the transcode process. A couple of questions:
Where is your source media stored?
Where are you setting your destinations to?
AAC is an audio format that carries a .acc extension. You can customize an h.264 preset to include AAC audio. I use a similar preset with timecode stamped clips.
In Compressor, you can create any number of destinations, which can also employ custom file name conventions. On my machine, I have a folder called "Compressor Destinations". Within that folder are other folders labeled for the kinds of files that I create. This structure helps sort files by types, which I then drag to their appropriate destinations once encoding has completed.
It sounds like you're on the right track, you just need to speed up the encoding process. Here are some links that I've found to be very useful with QClusters:
http://visionstudios.ca/RenderFarm/RenderFarmleft.html
http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/compressor_multi_coresstitzer.html