Exporting to Quicktime is taking so long!

This is just a 20 minute home video and it says it will take 2 hours. However it's been about 30 minutes and it still says 2 hours left to go. Status bar moving, but very slowly.
I have only Safari and Mail programs open. 350 GB/500 GB hard disc space available. Maybe 5 transitions. What could be the problem? I am following the suggested settings for a YouTube upload. Macbook Pro running 10.8

I work mainly in PAL DV SD.
I find if I export a self contained DV movie first, then open that exported file in Quicktime and from QT export to say 'Broadband-High' with H.264 compression it takes LESS time than exporting directly from FCP. Not sure WHY this should be, but it speeds up the process a bit. Might take you 4 hours instead of 7!
Ant
G5 2GHz dual, PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

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what am i doing wrong? under movie settings window that pops up, i clicked on default settings, but changed compression to h.264 (cus everywhere i've read has said it's faster), changed the dimensions to match 320X340, and changed the audio format to AAC with a 128 bit rate.
is this correct? i know i probably shouldn't have used mpeg-4 files to edit, but i hadn't known that until i read it here, today. i've also read that since i'm using mpeg-4 files, i shouldn't have tried exporting it as a h.264 file. is that true? could that have been the reason why the conversion was taking so long?
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let's put it this way. if you do File>Export>Quicktime you'll make a quicktime file with the same compressor as your sequence and it'll render faster. If you select File>Export>Quicktime Conversion you can make a quicktime file with a compression of your choice. (although the conversion process takes time). so you could compress it into a DVCPRO 50 quicktime, or an uncompressed quickime or H.264 quicktime. any of these settings will play in quicktime. These you can select through the options button in the converter window. we just suggest you use Export>Quicktime because it's faster easier and it's useless in your situation to convert.

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