Fcp and motion

Hi!
I finished a clip with text animation in motion and imported it in fcp. And as always it´s problematic. In fcp my motion file isn´t playing at all, neither in dvd 3. I have to finish this project next week!!!!!!! Help!
Mel

"Always" implies you have never been able to get Motion to work properly so it wouldn't be prudent to try stuff against a deadline. GEt out the Getting Started book and run it again. Now that you know your way around the interface, you can concentrate on the format settings and procedures.
"Problematic" doesn't help us help you. Frame rate, alpha, image quality, aspect ratio, color space? Try adding some descriptive information.
Without knowing what you think you're seeing, these problems are usually user issues because Motion only does what you tell it to do. So, go over your settings again and make sure the project specs match your FCP specs for image size and frame rate. Check the properties of the movie you've imported into FCP.
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