A versioning/FCP roundtripping question

Hi all. I cut a trailer in FCP and roundtripped to Motion to add graphics, mostly text-based effects, maps, etc. Now I need to do various no-effects/limited-effects versions of the trailer. What's the quickest way to accomplish this, in other words, to maintain the version I have while "turning off" various effects on certain shots?

What Mark said. When I'm planning ahead, I duplicate the clip on my FCP timeline before sending it to Motion. Then I disable one of the copies in FCP (ctrl-B), and send the other one to Motion. When I need to do the clean version of the sequence, I disable the Motion clip and re-enable the original. This has taken me much longer to explain than it does to do...
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not sure if I should split these two questions...
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I'm helping out a friend with their large photo collection and they bought Lightroom 5 and received the serial number but when we add this to Lightroom it states that it's invalid - I tried leaving it until the following week (I visit them weekly) and it still refusing the number - when I went into their Adobe account and took a look at downloads the option to download the full version is greyed out (or an x - I'm not sat on their computer right now so can't double check) but it wouldn't allow me to do anything so we just had the trial version.
anyone know what the issue is - shall I get them to contact Adobe to get them to take a look - I also had issues trying to find a customer support email address lol. (I seem to faffing with lots of websites/software/companies this week so getting a little frazzled!)
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2. Serial number issues or activating my product
3. Click on the blue button: Still need help? Contact us – then click the button marked “chat now”
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Hi,
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2. NOt sure what you mean here. Are you asking how do youconvert the audio to 48k 16-bit stereo for use in the sequence? Convert it BEFORE you get to your sequence. iTunes does this for music, as does Compressor, which also does this for ANY audio.
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