Motion freezes machine solid!

I'm working on a series of longer-than-ideal web videos (from 1 minute to 14 minutes) which are 560 x 208. But at random points - especially about half an hour into exporting, the machine locks up - no mouse movement, nothing! I have to hold the button to restart.
The videos are green-screen presenter over photos and moving text. Because it's a non-standard size it was hard to build these projects in FCP (no preview at all). I'm using dvMatte Blast for the keying, static images in the background (optimized more or less to the correct pixel dimensions for the project), and a light bit of text animation.
The crash log show nothing. Any ideas?

My suspicion is memory - you might run /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor to check on your memory usage.
Motion 1.0 was very bad with this. My workaround at the time was to put the project into FCP and render sections of it (mark in/mark out/select section/render selection) and save after each render. That way if I crashed, I didn't have to start from scratch...
post back,
Patrick

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