Render queue taking FOREVER

I'm trying to export a 12 second comp and it's taking an extremely long time. I've tried and cancelled several times now, from both the AE render queue and bringing it into Media Encoder and exporting from there. In both locations, no matter what settings I choose, it takes north of 10 minutes for anything to happen, and once it does show progress, the counter on time remaining generally starts at several hours and counts up from there, ranging anywhere from 5 to 50 hours remaining.
I have no other programs open, and have shut down and restarted my computer twice with no effect. The composition has three roto brush effects and two mocha tracks in it, not sure if that could be causing a delay but still seems like WAY too much time to me for a 12 second comp. Also, the RAM preview only takes a minute or two to complete to where I can play smoothly start to finish, should that not be about the same as export time or am I off on that?
Any help appreciated. Working on a mid-2012 MacbookPro with a 2.3G Intel Core i7, 8G RAM and an Intel HD Graphics 4000 1G graphics card.

Running Yosemite 10.10.1. And yes, I've rendered successfully before. Actually exported an earlier version of the same comp with one of the mocha tracks on it so my buddy I'm doing the work for could see it. That one exported in no more than a couple minutes. The only thing I can really see that's different is the rotoscoping, and the thing that seems to be time consuming is in the upper right "Info" window, there is a running count of "Roto Brush Propagating." It counts up until it gets to the number of frames, then starts over with a different number. Guessing it's doing this for every frame and maybe that's the time issue?
Not sure if I'm using a Ray-traced renderer, so if that's something I'd have to set myself I'd guess not.

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