Lost motion blur atribute in FCP Motion Embed

I've placed a Motion 4 graphic sequence onto my FCP timeline and it works fine except for that it no longer recognizes the motion blur I added to some fly-in text. "Motion blur" is selected in the render pulldown.
Any way I can get this to work without having to render?

For motion blur in a Motion project to work in FCP, you need to select the sequence, go to Sequence > Settings, go to the Render Control tab, and set the render quality to Best.

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Will Power PT wrote: Maybe I can invoice Apple for my hours of lost work due to the program not autosaving as they say it does !
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Rather than take it out on Apple, your energy would be put to better use if you search out the reason you're getting crashes. Autosave on FCP X is so good that even in the event of a crash, your work is normally saved to within a few moments of the crash.
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