Motion Project Rendering in FCP

I'm using FCSP 2 and trying to import a Motion project into FCP. The import works fine but it says it needs 8 hours to render a 30 second clip from motion. I know this cant be right as I have done it before without this much hassle. any help would be great...on a tight deadline.
Thanks
Ryan

After upgrading from FCS1 to 2, I too noticed the increased render times. I've done some testing, and found a solution that will cut your render times in half. In FCP, go to either the sequence settings or user preferences/RENDER CONTROL, and under RENDER QUALITY, uncheck "always use best" and set the render quality to normal. This is a new feature in FCP 6, your choices being "draft, normal, best."
From rendering the same motion file, as "normal" and as "best" the quality difference is negligible. In fact the "normal" rendered version actually looked sharper. The "best" version seemed to be smoothing edges so much that they appeared blurrier than the "normal" version.
FYI: I'm working in 720x480 DV-NTSC codec in FCP, with my motion files set to 720x480 DV as well. I'd imagine for mixed resolution rendering, especially for a motion file that is scaled in the FCP timeline or of higher rez than the timeline rez, that "best" quality would give better results.

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