Why does my 40 minute movie become a 7 hour video in compressor?

I've made a final cut HD movie about 41 minutes in length. When I send it to compressor I have to wait many hours while Compressor does it's magic. The reason for the unreasonable time is that it is compressing a 7 hour plus file rather then the 40 minute movie sent to Compressor. When the compressed file is sent to DVD Studio Pro I have to drag a 7 hour timeline down to 40 minutes of actual video/audio files. In Final Cut the sequence time line is only 40 minutes long and I can not find why this relatively short movie becomes so long when dispatched to Compressor. Any solutions?

Open your project and hit Shift Z. See whether there is any file beyond 40 minutes on the Time Line,
Take the Range tool and do a selection around your movie in the Time Line, In Share, choose Master File and save.
Open that file in Quick Time and it will be 40 minutes. Bring that file into Compressor for whatever encoding job you need.
Good luck.
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