Motion 4 isn't moving!

Hi all - I'm having a strange problem this morning that I'm hoping is just an errant keystroke of some sort.
I can't get motion to animate. For example, I've set up a ramp on the jitter setting of my shape's stroke... and when I manually drag my mouse across the timeline, I see the change. But when I hit the spacebar to play - NOTHING. Same when I export.
But more straight-forward behaviors, like spin, throw, etc... work.
What's going on?

Hi all - I'm having a strange problem this morning that I'm hoping is just an errant keystroke of some sort.
I can't get motion to animate. For example, I've set up a ramp on the jitter setting of my shape's stroke... and when I manually drag my mouse across the timeline, I see the change. But when I hit the spacebar to play - NOTHING. Same when I export.
But more straight-forward behaviors, like spin, throw, etc... work.
What's going on?

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