Very slow processing in Compressor

Compressor is taking a huge amount of time to output my 18-minute video.
As a newbie to Compressor I took the easy, quick-start way and "Sent" the file to Compressor from Final Cut and chose HD720p video sharing for YouTube as my batch setting.
That was an hour ago and it's not even halfway through.
Using an iMac with OS 10.7.5 and 16 Gb of RAM.  The original video is in HD and seems to work normally in Final Cut. I exported the file directly from FC as a .mov file and it was about 3 Gb, but took ony about 25 minutes to export.
Is there a better alternative? Does Adobe Premier have a more efficient workflow? I find Compressor extremely kludgy and un-Mac-like.
Thanks

stufromhalifax wrote:
That was an hour ago and it's not even halfway through.
The good news is the progress bar is not linear and half way is usually more like two thirds.
I don't think everyone agrees but I and others have found that the fastest and most reliable workflow - whatever the version of FCP and Compressor – is to export a self contained QT movie (Share>Master Fille in FCPX)…bring that into Compressor…apply one of the video sharing presets or a custom one of your own. Then upload using the Web site's uploader. And for FCPX, my experience is that even more time is saved (all in) if I don't render anything that I don't have to; so I keep Background rendering off – or set to a really high time interval.
My 3 year old iMac without hyper threading will take slightly more than 2 hours to encode an 18 minute QT to h.264. I would expect it to take about 80-90 minutes if I used my Quick Cluster (which I would) and well under an hour with one pass encoding.
As mentioned on a number of similar threads, processing can also be speeded up two ways: by distributed processing (including Quick Clusters that take advantage of the multiple cores in your iMac) and/or by changing the encoding to single pass. 
I have used older versions of Pr quite a bit and prefer FCP, but I've not used CS6, which certainly has a lot of fans. They do offer a 30 day trial.
Good luck.
Russ

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