how long should it take to compress a 3.6gb video for vimeo

Hi, Russ,

I'm using Compressor 3.5.3.

The movie is 80 minutes long.

My computer is a MAC os X, version 10.6.8.

It might be helpful to know, too, that I submitted the movie at 11:40 CST (about 3 1/2 hours ago). The gray bar appears to be moving, but the time remaining continues to climb -- now at over 9 hours remaining.

Thanks for your help.

Russ,

It only says MACbook Pro 5,2. Is this what you want?

Thanks.

Russ,

I'm not sure whether this is what you want: I had to open another version of the movie in order to open it with QuickTime Player. The information given there about format is "16-bit integer (Little Endian) Stereo, 48,000 kHz".

One problem may be that I was not able to export the movie using QuickTime Conversion, so I simply used "Send" to send it directly to Compressor. From there I dragged and dropped the Vimeo settings to begin the submission. It seems to be stuck on 9 hours.

I was not able to export the movie using QuickTime Conversion where I manually entered the specs because I kept getting an Unrendered prompt. However, several times I had selected the entire film and attempted to render it all again. Nonetheless, once in Quicktime Conversion, the red bars would appear and I would get the prompt.

Perhaps I should have made a .mov and then opened it with Compressor, etc. I'm wondering whether I should cancel and start over?

Thanks so much, Russ,

The compression seemed to be moving at last, so I let it run and it was successful. I think you're right -- the send directly to Compressor was not the way to go.

I appreciate your help!

Ellin