Workflow options for creating dailies?

Question

I recently shot about six hours of interview footage in a day-long shoot. My producer, who's in New York, asked me to dump all the raw footage to DVDs and fedex them up. No problem, thought I. I'll just capture it all, throw on a timecode burn and go.
Well, it turned out to be a little more complicated. Six hours of footage in five one-hour and two half-hour chunks requires a LOT of rendering just to put a timecode burn on it. The job's almost done now, thanks to a couple of overnight render sessions while I was home sleeping, but for next time, I'd like to find a better, faster and more importantly less-machine-tying-up workflow for creating dailies.
I'm aware that I could have just sent the tapes out to a post house to have them transferred to DVD with a TC burn on them, but since I was shooting in 24f mode on an XL H1, there are very few options for playing back these tapes. (Tapes shot in that format only play back on Canon cameras, and only on a few specific models of Canon camera to boot.)
Do any of y'all have a good workflow for creating dailies from piles and piles of raw footage?
Thanks.

Answer 1

Actually, that probably would work, since the whole point of this heretofore painful exercise has been to create dailies with a timecode burn on them. Even if the resulting DVD is 29.97, if I burned in the source timecode on my 23.98 sequence, that'd be fine.
Of course, I'd still have to insert pulldown into the signal going to the DVD recorder.
In my particular case, this option requires a couple of not-insignificant pieces of hardware that I neither have nor need for any other use: Namely, some kind of analog video output from my Mac, and a DVD recorder that takes an analog input. If I were doing this on a daily basis, finding the right combination of hardware and software would make perfect sense. But at this stage, I'm not producing long-form dailies often enough to make it worth a big investment.
As with so many things, this is sounding like a perfect trade-off between time and money. I can do it with no additional gear at all, as long as I'm willing to set aside a few hours to render. Or I can do it in real time, but only with new hardware.
Such is life.
(In retrospect, something I failed to think of before starting this effort was capturing my footage as DV instead of HDV from my camera. The XL H1 has a real-time DV downconvert option. I could have grabbed the six hours of footage as DV, then burned my dailies off of those with correspondingly shorter render times, then gone back to my source tapes to capture the clips I want for my edit. That would have been, y'know, smart. I'm just out of the habit of thinking on offline-online terms.)