Approx. length of video clip being exported?

Is there anything to change in my settings to see the approx. length of the movie/project I am exporting? I actually used this in my CS3 but don't see it in CS5.
Thank you,
Tony

I was exporting AVI's and in CS3 it still gave the file size.
Man, it's been so long since I even looked at CS3, I can't even recall what it looked like! I do seem to remember someone else bringing this up, though, when they moved from CS3.
Practically speaking, though, if you're exporting to an AVI or MOV, you don't so much care about file size because those are either intermediates or final delivery formats for something like broadcast--they are what they are. With delivery formats--either for web or optical disc--you're typically working with capacity or bandwidth constraints, so file size estimates are more important there. I don't know if this is part of the rationale behind the disappearance of these calculations in CS5, but it sure sounds good

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