Corrupted Motion projects in DVD Studio Pro

Hi.
I have just installed Final Cut Studio 2. I have opened a project I've been working on with previous version ( a DVD Studio Pro project with Motion files loaded ) and I have found that all my Motion projects appears with all the layers desplaced or just corrupted. Any solution to this? I still feel that Apple is treating us like "betatesters" instead of profesionals. Hope that some day I take something from them out of the box and it works as expected ( from the beggining, not many monthes later )...
Hugs
Antonio

Antonio:
Exporting the Motion project as animation will be easier and without quality loss. You can use that moie in DVDSP or to Compressor to encode to mpeg-2.
Out of topic
Mi padre era madrileño y vino a Argentina de joven (desde donde te escribo ahora). Hace unos años pude viajar a España y conocer esa hermosa ciudad y su gente. Un abrazo !
Alberto

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