Framing Behavior...Definitely buggy

Just posting to see if anyone else is dealing with their machine bogging down after adding a framing behavior to a camera. As soon as I added just one, I started getting the beachball every few seconds whenever I tried to do anything in Motion. As soon as I removed the framing behavior, everything went back to normal. I've seen similar posts about this. Anyone else have a workaround that doesn't involve just giving up and keyframing everything on a camera. This is frustrating as I just spent an afternoon trying to figure this problem out. These new features are cool but the bugs just keep rolling along which wastes a bunch of time. Thanks.
(Motion 4, 2007 MP QUAD, 13G RAM, 10.6.2)

Ok, got some major bugs today with a project. I noticed a few things.
My file was perfect for a few days. I had about 8 framing behaviors and they all worked flawlessly.
To add some realism/dimension I added a small sweep between each framing behavior.
That was the end of it. I started getting some major beachballing, 20-30 second stalls, crashing, 9 hour renders and crashes. Super fun.
On the last crash I took a look at the thread that crashed it. It was a HeliumRender and Ozone Framework call that ended up bringing motion down. I dunno what that means, but that's the thread that crashed it.
I opened the project back up to remove the sweeps and it immediately was bogging my system down to where I couldn't even uncheck the sweep behaviors. Complete meltdown. I can't even fix the issue now. My GPU is whirring like a bandsaw.
So this is very clearly a camera calculation issue (to me). It also is a pain because I can't seem to get it to back out of the issue. It's sort of just ******** now. I guess I can delete the camera and start over but that's a major issue in it's own right. So, why does the file seem corrupt now? What gets stuck? Why cant I just remove a few behaviors and have it go back to normal? That's what I don't get. It's like theres a camera move file that needs to be updated.
Any conclusions as to how to back out of this situation? From a professional standpoint I never like it when software causes me to limit my creativity or miss deadlines, or waste my time. I'm trying to cool down here, but this is a major pain.

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I can't be exactly sure this is your problem (not enough info,) but I have been able to recreate the problem you're describing, somewhat.
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Once all the framing behaviors are separated into their own "time" and stacked in order of "play" then all your framing problems should resolve.
The thread you referenced has nothing to do with any of this, and if that was an issue in a former release of Motion (version 4 judging by the date), it seems to have been fixed (default transition is set to Constant now and seems to work quite well.)
HTH

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But, I am having issues.
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