FCP Rendering seems to have slowed down !!

I have FCP at home which runs great, but i put a simple presenter to camera video piece into the timeline, keyed in motion as i always do, but the rendering has suddenly ground to a halt, suggested it would and does takes hours to render !! So i tried the same piece on an older Mac at work and it renders at the usual pace, which is acceptable.
Why is my rendering suddenly gone mad !! nothing has changed ??
Help it is driving me mad.
Paul

http://www.fcpbook.com/Misc1.html

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