Problem importing animation codec video from Motion.

Whenever I import a movie I made in motion at the preset animation codec Final Cut does not seem to recognize all of the layers. In one project in particular the text shows, but the background does not. Whenever I open the movie in Quicktime everything shows fine...however when I import it in Final Cut it leaves out layers of the project.
I do not understand.

It has something to do with the alpha channel. When I export with a solid backgroud, no transparency, it is fine. When I export wiht an alpha channel but tell final cut to ignore it....it works fine. But when teh alpha channel is set to straight, black or white....hte light wall does not show up.

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