Artifacts when rending a simple two minute video from Motion or Compressor

I keep getting artifacts randomly throughout the videos I export, whether i export directly from motion or via compressor, and regardless of which "Share" option I choose or which codec I use (including ProRes - all of them). I've tried literally every preset and even made my own. Its very frustrating because even one artifact messes up the whole video and I have to export it again.
The artifacts show up randomly throughout the videos so its not one particular asset that is a problem. And sometimes it even exports perfectly except that a video at the end (which is admittedly not from a high quality source) shows up SUPER pixelated. This is just as bad.
I've spent the last 48 hours rendering and rerendering the videos. Saving as a new motion file. Clearing cache and library files and pram and restarting. Nothing helps.
This is on top of the fact that I have, in the past, exported properly from compressor (but never from motion for anything more than a few seconds). And I tired this on two computers, one more powerful than the other. One computer is a Macbook Pro w/ core i7, SSD, and 8gb ram. The other was a Macbook air with Core2Duo and 4gb ram. Both of them sucked at exporting the movie. (The air was slower but actually better than the macbook pro.) I'm on the latest mavericks and the latest motion and compressor.
HELP! PLEASE! I dont know what to do!

You haven't said if the original video you imported into Motion is MP4 or H.264 or some other highly compressed media. It won't matter what you export if those "damaged" frames are in the original (and mp4/h.264/etc are prone to bad frames at the very beginning and very end depending on how they were prep'd for delivery).
You should (I'd say always, except I'd be a hypocrite) transcode original media into ProRes (any flavor) before importing into Motion. Check frame by frame if you have to to see if there's any damaged frames (usually there won't be.) I'd highly recommend using Quicktime 7 Pro (it's still available from apple's online store at apple.com) to transcode your video. Others might recommend MPEGStreamclip (but I just can't); or if you have it: Compressor.
If you have Final Cut Pro X, you'd be better off editing video in that app. You should be designing your Motion "add-ons" as effects, titles, transitions or generators for use in FCPX and leaving the video completely out of Motion. FCPX also takes care of transcoding to prores for you (opt to Transcode Optimized Media when importing.)
PS - you'll get better performance out of Motion if you use ProRes video. (Same goes for AIFF/WAV audio and NOT mp3.)
Hope this helps... otherwise I don't know what the problem would be.

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