FCP clip send export Motion

I have a series of short clips that I want to place a title over. When I click export to editor from FCP - Motion can't open the clip file. So I tried send to motion and the filters are lost.
What gives? How do you all work this?

Create the title as a single file... then import it into FCP and let FCP marry it to the background. You can use the export as a temp file to place the title with... then delete that background, save the motion project, and import that projedt into FCP and just place it over the clips in the timeline.
Jerry

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