Clip disappears

I am editing a music video in FCP. I have locked the base and am adding cutaways. I control clicked a cutaway to Motion to add an image mask, emitter and light overlay. It looked good in Motion and I wanted to return to FCP. The clip in FCP has the motn. label so things look good. I rendered the segment but cannot see the results in FCP segment and am now seeing the underlying clip as well as the clip I am working on that is in V2. In the browser in FCP is the new clip from Motion but it will not go into my segment. I do not understand why I am not seeing the clip from motion and why I am not seeing the underlying clip from track 1? Any idea as to what happen? Incidentally, I am not using the original media but am using the media transferred to my hard drive via media manager. I all the media from the project.

Yeah, but when things aren't working properly, you don't make assumptions about what things SHOULD be. Check the clip's settings to make sure it's the same (CMD+9).
So you're saying that the V2 clip is NOT SUPPOSED to be superimposed, but that it is? Did you check the opacity settings of the clip in V2? Did you apply a blend mode or adjust the opacity to the clip in Motion?
What happens when you trash the render? You can do this by selecting the clip in V2, and hitting OPTCMDV (remove attributes). Click ok without selecting anything, and that'll force FCP to update and you'll have to re-render the clip. Perhaps the render was bad.
If that doesn't do anything, how about right-clicking on the V2 clip and selecting "Open in Editor". That should load it back in Motion.
Failing that, you can try exporting the clip from Motion instead of your current workflow as a potential workaround. Also, since this behavior is not normal, you may want to trash your Motion and/or FCP preferences in case one or both are corrupt. I'd hope that it's just a bad render though.
andy

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