How to Cut in Motion 5?

I just got Motion 5 and I am very exited to start doing better editing and effects with my Youtube Videos. I can not for the life of me figure out how to make "cuts" which was super easy to do in iMovie but how do I make jump cuts in Motion 5?!

Motion works very differently than iMovie. To generalize, you control the timing of what appears on the screen by the decisions you male about positioning layers of different duration along a timeline and/or changing opacity.
If I could make a suggestion: spend some time with a good tutorial to get familiar with the terms, interface, and workflows. It will pay off in the long (and short) run. Here's one, comprising 18 lessons; it's also free.
Good luck.
Russ

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Tom, I never knew about the "Paste Attributes" button... and I've been using FCP for 4 years, how embarrassing. But dang, what a COOL feature! I'll be using that a lot in the future.
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1) Final Cut Pro constantly shuts down when attempting to render. Mostly when I am rendering Motion files.
2) Motion also shuts down when working in it or it completely locks up.
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C

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Command: Final Cut Pro
Path: /Applications/Final Cut Pro HD.app/Contents/MacOS/Final Cut Pro
Parent: WindowServer [117]
Version: 5.1 (5.1)
Build Version: 4
Project Name: FCPApp
Source Version: 602161028
PID: 1460
Thread: 0
Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
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0 ...lCutPro.Plugins.QTRtEffects 0x061eea90 KGSetQTRtResFile(unsigned char, short*) + 72
1 ...lCutPro.Plugins.QTRtEffects 0x061f5b08 RTEffectComponentRegister() + 96
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26 com.apple.FinalCutPro 0x00002c24 _start + 340
27 com.apple.FinalCutPro 0x00002acc start + 60
Thread 1:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9002c128 semaphore_wait_signal_trap + 8
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Obviously this messes up the whole flow of the video. It mustn't be a rare problem,
especially in the music video world where there is a lot of cutting to a beat.< </div>
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