Rendering Video from PS CS4

Ive got some footage shot from my Canon T2i (1080p @ 30fps) that ive edited the levels in to adjust the color. When I go to export it in Apple Pro Res 422 it works fine, the only problem is the file is MASSIVE. Ive got a 9 second clip that renders out to be 256.9mb. Considering the original footage is about 330mb per minute this is insanely large... My Mac has a hard time even playing the file without being choppy in the viewer or in quicktime, much less in FCP. At 28.5mb per second thats not really to surprising... Any suggestions?
MacBook:
Mac OS X 10.6.4
2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4GB 1067 MHz DDR3
Thanks

You need to provide exact info on your render settings, document sizes, system and so on.
Mylenium

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I have Power Director on my workstation (dual 21" CRT Hitachi 915's), and I see no difference between it's display, and that in P-Pro2, when I switch it to 100%. They both look the same to me. Do not have PE on the workstation, and do not have Power Director on the laptop, so I cannot compare those in an A-B situation.
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Hideous Heidi wrote:
If i do it like David says the titles are displayed with different fonts.
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Hi Shane
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