Motion transitions affecting export

Question

I recently finished editing a video. Originally I just used basic cross dissolves for most of my transitions. However, for a few key spots I decided to use some more involved transitions from Motion. I got it all smoothed out the way I want it, however, after burning my DVD I realized those transitions were not there. I tried opening DVD Studio Pro but it would not initialize the assets properly. I had to use Time Machine to open a copy of my DVDSP file before I added the video asset in question. I then opened the video in Final Cut Pro, and it plays fine, but when try to export it to Quicktime Movie (self-contained or not....no difference) it gets about 9% done and then it simply says general error.
I know that this is directly related to those motion files, but I don't just want to delete them. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Here some possible solutions that may work when a general error occurs:
Try [this small application|http://www.digitalrebellion.com/pref_man.htm] to delete your preferences. Close FCP>run the preference manager>empty bin>restart the machine.
Trash your renders using render manager from FCP main menu>Tools.
From motion export using a codec that matches your sequence settings and use those export rather than Motion projects .motn straight from the application.
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