Motion very slow saving files

Hi
I am new to Motion, and am probably doing something wrong but...
I am trying to assemble still frames into a movie. I have maybe 2000 frames and I drop them onto a custom project which is a 720x576 25fps clip with the number of frames set to 2000.
Before I export using compressor (which works fine and at a good speed), I save the Motion project. This takes AGES! Maybe half an hour. Activity monitor shows one core running at 100% all this time.
Is this normal?

It probably has to do with the fact that there are 2000 individual files in your project.
You could open them as an image sequence in QT and then save as a QT movie and THEN import into Motion. That way you only have 1 file in your project.
Then again, if all you're doing is assembling the frames into a QT movie, I'd just do the above procedure in QT Pro instead of Motion. Using Motion for that is like swatting a fly with dynamite.
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