Slow transition from Screen Recording back to Captivate Tool

I am new to captivate so excuse me if I do not know all the training/tool jargon yet.
I am trying to do a screen capture of a web based tool to train a client. I have done a few of these, and they worked pretty well, but longer recording seem to bog down. Obviously this makes sense, but the current recording is taking forever and I can not tell if the software is locked up or working. I just get the spinning ball on the mac when I try to bring up Captivate.
It seems like in the past if I hit Command Return, it started closing the recording. In the past when it acted like it was hanging up, I would just click to open Captive and it would show me a that it was working. Currently I am not getting that when I bring up the captivate software. I still see the red outline for the recording area and this has been 30 minutes or so. Is it possible that it is still working or do you think there is a problem?
The screen recording was long, but this seems really long to transition.
So I guess I need to know if this is common. And second what I should do now? Should I let things run over night or is the tool still recording? If so this could just keep recording and fill up the hard drive (I guess).
Any ways to cancel the recording if it is still recording? Is there any way to check this? Is there a realistic (or estimated timeframe) to wait for this transition? For every minute you can expect to wit 2 minutes to finalize and move the recording over to captivate (or similar). Is there another way to end things or know what is going on?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
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