Exporting to Quicktime compressing time grows

Greetings,
I'm trying to export to Quicktime with expert settings to get a file size larger than CDROM but smaller than Full Quality (which is a whopping 19 GB file). When exporting and compressing the movie, the time remaining keeps growing and growing while the progress bar seems to hang about 1/5 of the way through. I've tried this on a couple of different computers and to different hard drives. I even tried exporting to the CDROM option with the same effect.

"Full Quality" will be a .dv file (no reduction from your source file).
You don't want that setting unless you need to move the Project to a QuickTime format (to continue editing or to bring back to iMovie).
You will need to use the "Expert Settings" dialog (avoiding the preset options) but you must first know how your file will be viewed.
Are your trying to email? Send the file to a Web page? Display the file on a LAN?
How long in time is your video? Where will it be viewed?
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