Final Cut Pro 5 doesn´t export complete movies.

From you profile it appears you have "small" Macs, a MacBook and an iMac.
It is probably too little memory or too slow/small a disk drive causing your problems. Unlike Windows, when you run out of resources and it blows up, the Mac OS seems to just keep going but avoids allowing certain tasks to work--often without reporting an error. THis gives you the illusion that things are working but there are no results.

So if you don't have at least 2GB of RAM in your Mac's or you're nearly out of disk space, that is most likely your problem.

Rendering depends on the captured material. If the material is captured in the format of the sequence, then there's little rendering going on. If the output is the same or substantially similar to the captured format, rendering times will be lower.

On an Intel-base Core 2 Mac, DV rendering is typically pretty quick. Moving to HDV its a bit longer--sometimes a lot longer in fact.

Also, do a google search on FCP Rescue and download and run that tool (its freeware). It can clean up your Final Cut files and give you a fresh start if anything is corrupted. But be warned! It will destroy any preferences or user settings you've already modified.

Message was edited by: Bob Cozzi