Kerning Caution! It can kill your Motion file.

Kern carefully. There is a bug that can render your motion file un-openable!
I will describe it in detail here to see if anyone else can reproduce it. I was able to reproduce it consistently, even with a new file.
I wanted to adjust the beginning of a text line to closely line up to another text member. There are many ways to do this. In this instance I chose to kern the space before the first character of the text line in order to shift the entire line.
Don't do this! It will kill your motion file.
When I tried to render a movie  (Share/Export Movie...) after making this adjustment, here is the error message.
I saved the file, hoping that restarting Motion would fix the problem. But the project file will not open.
Luckily I had a backup of the file. I did a bit of trouble shooting after this and found that this type of kerning would consistently kill the project file. This is a very nasty bug. There may be more like this so proceed with caution when kerning.

Hope you have reported this to Apple Tracy via the Motion Help menu to http://www.apple.com/feedback/motion.html
I will stay away from kerning for now, thanks for the heads up!

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