Thanks everyone for the support!
I found the culprit that was resulting in my long times. I was only using Mojo, LUTBuddy and Colorista for color adjustments (filming on 5d2 with Technicolor Cinestyle) but I was using Warp Stabilizer on quite a bit of the footage. I took those off of clips that didnt absolutely need it, and lowe and behold 3 hours later I’m rendered.
As for rendering outside of AE, I actually have very little experience with that. I come from a photography background, and as such have very little experience with video editing. In result, my rendering knowledge is not too savvy. For this specific case, my problem was with Warp Stabilizer — I tried rendering with every setting under the sun (including lossless), but for future reference could anyone recommend a walkthrough on rendering out of AE and then encoding in another software?
If anyone is curious to see, here is the final output:
https://vimeo.com/37367654
By all means far from my best work, but having a week and a half turn-around time from filming to final product, it’s not absolutely terrible.
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