Final Cut Pro Only makes 30 second video

I promise I'm am not normally this challenged. I am a new user of video editing software of any kind. I have made it through to the final step.
I cannot make a final video any longer than 30 seconds. No matter how long the sequence is, when I export to quick time, windows media or any other format the resulting video is always 30 seconds. I have gone through all of the settings and read everything I can find. Help!

Limit Capture Now shouldn't have an effect on the length of your renders. As Jerry said, make sure you have no ins and outs marked, make sure you don't have a specific clip in the timeline selected and you should be good to go,
As for the WMF files, if you are using the demo version of Flip For Mac, then it will only do 30 second exports until you pay for it and register.
rh

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256GB SSD it shipped with will run low and one of the things to watch.
Default memory is 12GB also something to think about.
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http://macperformanceguide.com/index_topics.html#MacPro2013Performance
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kushyton wrote:
it shows in hd on quiktime. when i upload it to youtube it is much more blurry. am i doing somthing wrong???
In QT, if you open the Inspector, what is the format? Post a screen shot of the info.
Did you try one of the Video Share presets?
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Just turned off background rendering.
I'm not certain what you mean for specs in a specific point in the video, but here are the specs for the entire edit I initially received:
Dimensions: 1920 X 1080
Codecs: H.264, AAC, Timecode
2 Audio Channels
Total bit rate: 12,083
Size: 951,735,770 bytes (951.7 MB on disk)
Here are the specs for the exported video that has the audio issue:
Dimensions: 1920 X 1080
Codecs: H.264, AAC, Timecode
2 Audio Channels
Total bit rate: 12,274
Size: 966,817,082 bytes (966.8 MB on disk)
The video is 10:28 minutes long and the audio leaves at 5:57.
If that wasn't what you were looking for, just let me know. I'm not very good with technical stuff sometimes so may have misunderstood.
Is there something I should have done to the piece before I began color correcting it, like transcoding?

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Select Share>Blu-ray and in the window that opens make sure the Output Device is your DVD burner, not the hard drive.
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and you can export sections til you find the problem clip.
You might also try creating a new sequence with the same settings, and copy everything from the problem sequence. This will sometimes resolve this kind of issue.
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http://www.fcpxbook.com/Multicam1.html
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