FCP timeline to Motion 3  "send to" clip length problem

I am having a problem with Motion 3 when I send a selected clip from an FCP timeline to a Motion Project (for some optical flow treatment)
It processes the entire source file associated with the clip- even if I have used a subclip to edit into the sequence in the first place- my source files are long so it takes several hours for a section only lasting a few seconds.
Is there a simple solution to this?
Thanks,
Andrew Parker

Thanks for these replies.
A bizarre design- making a nonsense of the integration from FCP sequence clip to Motion 3 for this treatment.
I'm hesitant to go to Motion 4 half way through a project- especially as there seem to be other teething problems from what I can gather on this forum.
I guess I could also re-ingest at short length those clips that I want to treat with optical flow blending- making it only a last stage process for all practical purposes.
Andrew

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