720x405? That's an off size.
My guess would be about 6 hours or less to render your file to MPEG-2. We've done feature length docs here and it doesn't take that long to do. Making H.264's for the web take longer than MPEG-2's.
The other way to do it is to simply downconvert from HD to SD before the compression if you want to pick up speed. We've done this too. Lay off the feature to HD tape then downconvert in realtime during ingest back into the system via our Kona 3's. Then create the SD DVD from that.
We work both ways with it here.
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