Motion Clips Come Up Short In FCP

I'm working on a 30fps motion project. When I bring it across into FCP it shows as the right length on the timeline, but cuts to black a few frames (roughly equivalent to the number of drop frames you'd expect) before the end of the clip.
The same thing happens in both FCP 30fps and 29.97fps timelines. The motion clip just ends before it ends (if you see what I mean).

Hmmm it's working for me but I'm running Motion 2.0.1 and higher.
Maybe something buggy in Motion 1?
I go to file>export and then choose
kind: Quicktime Movie
export preset: DV NTSC Movie (but this doesn't matter right now)
then I go into options and click the advanced button which should open up Compression settings and change the Compression type from DV/DVCPRO - NTSC to Animation and make sure the depth is set to Millions of Colors+
and voila! ....any luck?

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A civil request for more information! Of course, it isn't
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but I can repeat my thought processes in a step-by-step, and hope
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thanks for helping me out...i am new to this program...
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