Quicktime Pro (7.6.4) - recent inability to flatten & save large files

Hi,
I've been happily cutting, editing and saving files with Quicktime Pro for well over a year but in the last month it has abruptly stopped flattening and saving files larger that about 155 MB - I can save up to about 20 minutes but no more. This means I'm having to chop MOV files into bits and save in several parts. Can anyone explain what on earth is going on? If I leave it to attempt to save the big files it doesn't flatten them nor several hours later has it saved anything - just 4KB files. I use Flip4Mac with Quicktime but that seems to be working fine. I also have the Perian plug-in which was recently updated.
If anyone can suggest a way or working around this problem I'd be keen to hear it.
Many thanks, Tanya

i do have the same problem
i can´t see any file (no png, no jpeg)
but i asked this problem before and never got an answer

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