8 hours to render 30 minute movie

I must be doing something wrong. I'm assuming it shouldn't take 8 hours to render a 30 minute movie. iMovie version is 7.1.4 I used share with web browser so it would be a "large" movie. Does anyone know why it's taking so long??? It's driving me crazy I loved the old version 4.0.1 and that'll be my next question

1) Is your source material high definition? If not, rendering in Large is not going to improve SD very much.
2) LARGE movies in MobileMe look great but they take a great deal of time to load when watching (and a great deal of time to upload.
3) I recommend that you make a short five minute movie. (For example you can control-click/Duplicate on your project name and make a duplicate project. Then delete everything but the first five minutes.) Then Share it to either iTunes or the Media Browser in Large and Medium. It should take no more than 10 minutes to do the rendering. Then share this five minute movie in Large and Medium to Mobile Me. It may take 30 minutes or more, but it is already rendered, so this is all web transfer time.) Now watch it in both Medium and Large. You will notice that the Large movie takes about 5 minutes to load before it starts playing. The medium movie should start playing almost immediately. Then decide which which way to go for your 30 minute movie. The upload time will be 6 times or more the upload time for your 5 minute movie, and the rendering time will be approximately 6 times the rendering time for you 5 minute movie.

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