Compressing Apple Pro Res 422

Hello,

I have a big job ahead of me to compress 5 seperate events which are each about 6 hours long into a format that is easily viewable using common media players, like Quick Time, or VLC, or other.

I captured the footage on a Sony AVCHD camera and have logged and transfered all of the footage into FCPro 6. I tried to compress the first event (about 6hrs long) and the compression went on for almost 2 days and I still didn't get a workable video.

I think I don't know what I'm doing and would love to get some guidance to how to do this the quickest way possible. I would like to estimate if I can even accomplish this job by evaluating how much time it will take.

I am specifically asking for the following info:
What is the best compressor setting to use to compress Apple Pro Res 422 into a (.mov) file or someother easily playable file on a computer.
How long should I expect this to take?

Thanks in advance,

Arturo