So slow 16 hours to compile 50 min Movie

Hi,
just bought an i5 Mac Mini and installed 8GB ram in it.  played with the IMOVIE and created a 50 min HD movie
when clicked on finalized the project it estimated a 16H compilation time.  All other apps were closed and the system monitor showed some 270% of CPU usage with the IMovie process
Thats seems exesive to me.
Is there anything I can/should do?
Thanks
Ted 

Finalize is taking a long time for this reason: Finalize makes several copies of your video and saves them all to the Media Browser in iLife. So that 16 Hours is not to create a 'final' version of your project. Instead it is making 4-5 versions of it. That's why it is taking so long.
It is confusing the name Apple has chosen for that feature, and rather than explain what it was intended for, I'll try to tell you what to try instead of doing Finalize the next time. When you're ready to export out to a single video file from iMovie Try this:
1. Go to the Share Menu and Choose Export Movie...
2. Choose the largest size you would like to make (if you want the biggest size that's fine try it)
3. Save it to the desktop
The final video will be a .m4v which is really an .mp4 just a different naming extension used by Apple. That can then be your 'final' output from the project itself. And I'm guessing it will take less than 16 hours for the Mac mini to create that one large version of the project.

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