Motion 3 exports stutter in QT

Can the file size of the stills I'm using have anything to do with it? I'm trying to do a 1920x1080 export; I already reduced the stills quite a bit to be able to work with them at all in Motion but they are now well under the stated limit
Running QT 7.6.4
Recently installed Pro Tools LE 8.0, but my old exports play back fine
Can underlying kernel panic cause malfunction in program efficiency like this? Export using Compressor from FCP works fine....
Is there some setting I'm missing in Motion that is making my exports fail? Difference between sequence settings and output codec? Anything?
Motion is so hypersensitive at its best that this is really frustrating.

Can underlying kernel panic cause malfunction in program efficiency like this? Export using Compressor from FCP works fine....
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Depends on when and where the OS crash happens and that information is missing.
<div class="jive-quote">Is there some setting I'm missing in Motion that is making my exports fail? Difference between sequence settings and output codec? Anything?
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You'd have to define "fail." If they work in FCP's output, after they'[ve been rendered, then they didn't fail. If you're trying to view them raw, in QT Player or in the viewer of some other editing or compositing app, then, no, they still haven't failed.
I'm not at my Motion machine today but I've got my copy set to output to ProRes4444, with alpha. If you are exporting to the Animation codec, as Patrick says, nothing will play that back without hardware acceleration. It's not that the size is too large, it's the bitrate.
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I don't agree with that. I find Motion frustrating, sure, but Motion is anything but "sensitive." I find it to be just the opposite: dull, numb, and emotionally unavailable.
bogiesan

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