Quicktime Conversion Export Takes Way Too Long

I am using FCE2.
I have a 28-minute project that I am trying to export to a quicktime movie. (h.264 640x480 29.97FPS)
Every time I export, it takes 6 hours to complete! When I play it back, the quality is bad. It skips like there are not enough FPS.
I have tried adjusting the compression, size, FPS everything...but it just doesn't come out right. I have the latest versions of quicktime pro, and FCE2.
Something is wrong. Isn't 6 hours way too long? My computer gets real hot and the fan is constantly on while it's crunching.
What do I need to change? Any suggestions?
Thanks

Ah I think I figured it out.
I did another test project with the same source DV file, but didn't do ANY editing to it.
It took 2 minutes to export a 70mb reference mov file from a 7 minute DV sequence.
Then I cropped & resized the sequence by changing parameters in the "motion" tab.
Then it took 20 minutes to export a much larger reference mov file from the same 7 minute DV sequence.
Then I clicked "render all" after selecting every render option in the drop-down menu.
Then it took less than 1 minute to export a 70mb reference mov file from the same 7 minute DV sequence.
So I guess I was having problems because I didn't render "everything", because I didn't select "FULL" on the drop-down menu for rendering. I thought only RED segments in the timeline needs to be rendered prior to export, but apparently the "FULL" render must be selected as well so that the entire timeline is nice and purple. (or some shade of blue)
Also, a cropped and resized video is very large in size (GB) if it is exported as a reference file only without prior rendering. * Can someone else confirm that this is the normal behavior in FCE? *
Oh well, lesson learned.. This movie is going to take a very long time to export, and result in a very large file. But I can't use it without cropping & resizing it!
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