Working with long projects

I have a four hour long project that I would prefer to place on a single DVD. Can this be done with Compressor? Everything I have done to date fits within that 150 min.setting for DVD Best Quality.

I am starting a fairly large project (about 1 hr 15min total running time) that will have a little bit of special effects (FCP, some Motion) and a few audio tracks. I just threw together a project of the same length and am testing it now. Should I expect Compressor to take 20 hours to encode it into good quality mpeg 2? (that's what I am seeing on the screen now - I haven't rendered or exported anything) I am used to long waits when working with larger projects but that seems a bit much.
If you're using Export Using Compressor on an unrendered timeline of 75 minutes on a PowerBook then, yes, that's a very normal encoding time (especially for a timeline with many filters and/or motion effects).
However, when I use this method, I find the MPEG2 output to be substantially better than any other workflow using the Final Cut Studio apps.
Of course, if you don't need the best quality - say for a proof disc to be given to your client to check off on - I'd simply drop a QT reference movie into Compressor. Using the Fastest Encode possible, of course.

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