Exporting reference movie

I am exporting a movie with make self contained unchecked to export a refernce movie (1.5 hours) before it only took a few minutes to export the reference movie, now its telling me 9 hours. help!
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a reference qt points to the original media ONLY if there are no effects applied.  If there are effects applied AND they are rendered, it points to the renders.  if there are effects applied but NOT rendered, it needs to render the effects and includes them in the "reference" quicktime which will take much longer to output and will be a much larger file.
Telling whether your effects are rendered in fcp is not always easy.  Make sure all options in the sequence menu:  render all are checked and then render your sequence. 

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