Is it normal to take this long?

I put together a number of clips I took on my iPhone into one single movie using iMovie. Total running time is about 30 minutes. However, when I went to finalize the project, it says it will take 12 HOURS!
Now, I am running this (iMovie 11) on an iMac 2.8 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo with 2GB on RAM, running under OS X v 10.6.6. I don't think this is a slow machine, but 12 hours is a bit of a stretch for a simple 30 video.
Is this normal? Is there any way to speed this up?
I am sort of new to the Mac world, and it is my understanding that professionals use these machines to produce professional type videos. So, if they are producing a 2 hour video, is it going to take 48 hours of rendering?

However, when I went to finalize the project, it says it will take 12 HOURS!
That does sound abnormal to me. If you have chosen the option in iMovie's menu "File>Finalize Project", iMovie will render all the available sizes, such as Medium, Large, HD 720p and HD 1080p. This will certainly take much longer than rendering just one size. So, unless you really need all these sizes, it's best to use Share>Media Browser and select just the size you want.
Note that to locate the shared movie (or movies), in Finder (multi-column view), go to your User (Home) folder and click on the Movies folder then iMovie Projects. Right-click (or Control-click) on the name of your project and select "Show Package Contents" from the pop-up menu. Now click on Movies - you will see the exported movie (or movies) with a name like large.m4v, medium.m4v, 720p.mov or similar. Copy the appropriate movie then paste to the Desktop, otherwise access it from the Media Browser in applications like iDVD etc.
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