One Step from iMovie - compressor setting

I thought that One Step would always use the default preferences for encoding. I have a 110 min iMovie and prefs set to Best Performance. I get the message "won't fit" when using a trivial menu, but when I use One Step it works. Is One Step temporarily using another encoding setting and if so, which one?
MikeR
Beaverton, OR

Best Performance will only handle 60 minute playing time. You'll need to use Best Quality or Professional Quality (if the movie has fast motion scenes in it) to get the 110 minute movie burned.
See Bengt Wärleby's post in this topic for more detail: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1794959&tstart=0

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