Export to QT Movie/File Size Triples?

Hello fine folks,
Having a problem exporting a long sequence out of FCP to a QuickTime Movie (NOT self contained), for import into iDVD.
The final file that is created is 22 gb! Way too large to use easily in iDVD. (And way too slow in creating it, obviously.) I also tried it as self-contained, but that was so slow that I canceled it (45 minutes, and 15 percent done). I am using chapter markers.
The assets in total are only about 7.5 gb, and I'm not using all of the assets, just edited parts of them.
I have done this before, but not on my laptop, as I am doing now (on the road for the holidays).
Anyone have any advice for what I'm doing wrong/what the issue is?

Hi Jim,
Thanks for the response.
I'm using a PowerBook G4 1.5, with 1 gb of ram. Using FCP 4.5. I have only the internal drive, so all files are on the system drive.
I'm intrigued by your idea of rendering. I had problems rendering. Quite a bit of it needed to be rendered (especially audio -- there are many mp3s in the sequence). I would select render all, and it would render a bit of it, then quit with a "general error." I had to select render all several times ... actually once for each mp3 in the sequence -- before the whole thing was finally done. I've never had to do this before.
(Another issue I was having -- not sure if this helps -- my sequence contains a couple of old home movies transferred into dv ... they have audio files attached, but the home movies are silent. So before I placed these assets into FCP, I opened the home movie files in QTPro, to export them without sound/get rid of the soundtracks. I have also done this before on my MacPro, with success. But on my laptop, this exporting from QTPro was so slow and ponderous that I gave up ... it would have taken me three or four hours just to export a 2.6. gb file into another file without audio. So again, I gave up.
There is something going on that I can't quite figure out.)
Many thanks.
John

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