Workflow  for file export

I am working in Final Cut Pro 4.5 on a DP500 Mac w/MacOS 10.3.9 Panther. I am trying to minimize the time required to get a file out of FCP to a DVD. Since Quicktime is used to get the file out of FCP before anything else is done I'm posting here instaed of the FCP forum. I have also recently acquired the LaCie Fastcoder to help out with this. Fastcoder says it wants an "NTSC DV Stream" in order to convert a file to MPEG2 in real time. I can then burn the results using Toast pretty easily. The Fastcoder takes a little longer to convert the Final Cut exported DV Stream to an elementary MPEG2 Stream that is usable in DVD Studio Pro, but the time reduction is still better than the interminable time it takes for Compressor to do the same thing.
Here's the Quicktime question. When I export the file from FCP using Quicktime conversion and selecting "DV Stream" and "NTSC 48k" it takes 3x realtime to do this. Is there a faster way to get Quicktime to create an NTSC 48K DV Stream..... ?
TIA
Pete D.
dual 500 G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

9X% of the time is for converting the raw to rgb, and only 0X% for encoding the rgb for final output format. So, the answer to your question is:
there is no fastest format for exporting.
If you want quick lossless exports, the only solution I know of is to adopt a 2-stage pipeline:
* Apply baseline adjustments to raw (e.g. white-balance, lens corrections, noise reduction, "capture" sharpening), and export 16-bit tiff back to catalog (hopefully, this is only done once, or at least very infrequently).
* Apply further adjustments to tiff.
The tiff will export faster than the raw, since it has the benefit of starting with already rendered RGB data.
Far from ideal, I know, and personally - I wouldn't bother. But it's the best I got for ya...
If you want quick lossy exports, then use PreviewExporter.
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