Importing video in motion

I am having all sorts of problems with Motion, which I am using for the first time. I have a video which is 5 minutes long. It works just fine when I open it from its folder.
However, when I open Motion and drag the file from the Utility Pane to the Canvas Pane only 10 seconds or so of the 5 minutes video show up in the Timeline. When I hit play in the Canvas it go through those 10 seconds and then repeats.
What am I doing wrong????

First you need to change the project duration to 5 min. For now, go to the project properties (command-J) and change the durstion setting on the left to 5:00:00.
Next, you may need to change the play range. Place your cursor over the timline, and type comand-z, this will fit the timeline to show the entire project. You will see that part of the timeline is grayed out. On the left, of the time ruler, you will see a line going down with an arrow pointing left, this is the play range out point. When playing back, if the playhead hits this and you have looping enabled, it will loop at this point. Click and drag the arrow all the way to the right of the timeline.
You should now have a project that is 5 min and will play all the way through.

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