Final cut pro X takes hours to export a file with lots of images So I've created a video, its in 1080p, it has a lot of images on it doing various things, fading in and out, moving around the screen etc.  It also has a picture in picture video on it and two audio streams.  I find that when I come to trying to share this as a master file even in the lowest resolution I can pick it takes hours and hours to export it!  The final file is &lt;2gb in size (if I try 1080p the result is only circa 6gb and I've never completed it, it seems to grind to a halt after hours).

I'm running on a macbook pro which is about 2 years old, with 16gb Ram, 1tb hdd with a good 33gb of space etc.  Worth adding that when I don't have so many pictures the same video might take an hour or two but overall is much faster, is it just the sheer number of images I've got?  If so is there a way to mitigate this?  Not sure if relevant or not but I've also turned of rendering as having it on makes the mac start to sound like it's ready to take off! 

Any suggestions how I can speed things up?
I found in the end the easiest way was to leave the video to render everything as I hadnt done this, it took about six or seven hours to do but once done the actual sharing in h264 format only took about an hour to do, which isn't that bad.

I could change the share version to video and audio and then pick prores but the resultant file would have been nearly 40gb! I have no idea how long it'd take to spit that out, possibly shorter than the rendering and sharing time of the other filetype combined but then I'd have a file approximately 7-8 times the size and not suitable for uploading online/to youtube etc, and any resizing that I'd need to do would probably end up taking an extra chunk of time as well, in the end I'll just make sure I have my projects render overnight before I need to do stuff with them...