Motion 5 Hangs (beach ball) when selecting a movie file in File Browser

Using the file browser in Motion 5, select a movie file (any type of movie file) Motion hangs. Even occurs when trying to select a folder that contains any movie files. After selecting a movie in about 30 seconds the clip details will appear at the top of the file browser, but the video is never displayed in the small preview window. No problems when selecting any pictures or audio files. Also, can drag any of these same movie clips with the Finder into Motion and they play with no issue. Any ideas?

Primarily have HD footage that uses the H.264 codec and SD footage that is DV NTSC. Also, have clips I have created with After Effects and rendered out as mov files using the Animation Codec, all have the same problem.
Further, did not have this issue until after migrating to Lion, all was good with Snow Leopard. But, I can't say that the problem started immediately after the migration. Did not use Motion 5 until about 2 days after I did the migration.
This is on a Macbook Pro 17in, early 2011, 8GB memory, AMD Radeon HD6750M

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