Motion project appears with

I'm having a problem with Motion projects imported into a Final Cut Pro timeline. A thin black bar appears over the top of the movie. This is consistent across multiple Motion and Final Cut Pro projects.
An example is at http://homepage.mac.com/alan.stonebridge/motionfcpissue.png
Any ideas?

If you want to use vector artwork in Motion and have it scale with continuous rasterization, create them in Illustrator, then save as .ai or .pdf.

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