Pixelated / Corrupt Quicktime Movie Export

Final Cut Pro Version 7
Hey guys,
So I've finished editing a long film of about 1 hour and 18 minutes. When I use the Export > To Quicktime Movie, my film comes out super pixelated after the first cut in Quicktime X. I suspect the file is corrupt because when I play it in VLC, the first cut plays nicely and then all the sudden, I will get the hypnotic-dreaded-beach ball-of-death, and then VLC crashes.
Here is a screen shot of beofore the corruption: http://grab.by/ZZT
Here is a screen shot of when it gets corrupted: http://grab.by/ZZU
I have tried exporting three times now (which takes hours every time) as a self contained film and also as a non self contained film, and both times the movie gets corrupt after that first cut every time. When I render just parts of it, everything comes out fine. One thing I noticed is the part that works says "rendered" on the render bar and the part that gets corrupt says "full" on the render bar. Normally it should work with both full and rendered video when I export, but I don't know.
I have tried dumping preferences multiple times, doing Save As... on my prejects and repairing permissions to no avail.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

Sorry about that!
My sources are all shot from the same camera, and are HDV 1080p30 at 29.97 fps. My sequence settings are HD 1440 x 1080 (16:9) with an editing time base of 29.97 fps. The quicklime video settings are HDV 1080i60 (is this the problem?).
I'm exporting to my boot drive, so HFS+ journaled. Not sure if it matters but it is partitioned with an NTFS bootcamp on the same disk.

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