Export to quicktime...motion quits.

I am trying to export my motion project as a quicktime. It has quite a few layers and a few particle emmitors and some gaussian blur filters. I have tryed to export a few times once I got 2100 frames of 2700 complete and then Motion quit. Is there anything I can do. I tried to render in FCP but it says it would take 3 days. Is this noramal. My video is only 1.5 minutes. If you look at my computers specs is my system going to be able to do this? Thanks in advance.

Well, 14GB free on your main HD is starting to get tight. Your RAM appears to be all used up and you're paging out to your main HD. I can see Motion's paging space climbing in your screen captures.
What you should try is to see what's happening when it fails. The screen grabs you supply are all from early stages in your render.
Is it a complicated project? Are you limiting the life span of your particles so that once they're off screen they die off? Particles living endlessly into the distance can start to load your system down.
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