Im having trouble having iMovie convert to Quicktime

Hey Everyone,
I recently shot and edited a movie on iMovie on my Powerbook G4 (I have iLife). When i tried to convert the movie to a Quicktime file (CD-ROM size). It would convert succesfully until about it began to say "about 10 minutes remaining". It would then freeze and nothing would happen. Can someone please tell me something im doing wrong or something im not doing correctly? thanks alot!
PS I recently bought a new camcorder, a Canon ELURA 100 (its DV).
thanks,
Casey

Sometimes the progress bar when exporting to QuickTime is a bit unreliable, to say the least. It can't be relied on it to show us exactly what's going on.
It's usually the case that when the export appears to "freeze", it hasn't. It's just taking a nap. It sits there, and sits there, and sits there, then suddenly it zooms quickly to the end.
This is especially true when exporting with the H.264 codec, which is the default export codec for iMovie 6. Its export is slower than most other codecs (which isn't all bad, for it does a great job) and its progress bar is even more unreliable than most.
So I'd suggest trying again, and being very patient. Let it run overnight if you need to just to be sure it's had all the time it needs. If the project is long, it can take a long time.
One way to estimate the time is to export a clip that's 30 seconds long. Then based on how long that took, calculate the time for the entire Timeline.
Note too that it'll be a lot slower if iMovie isn't the frontmost application.
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