Problem pulling clips into Motion

Hi, I'm having a peculiar problem, and I wonder if anyone here can help.
I have a sequence I'm cutting in Final Cut with two clips -- one clip is running at 100% speed, and the other is running at 50% speed -- slow motion.
When I select the two clips and send them to Motion, something very weird happens. The normal-speed clip shows up fine, but the slow-mo clip shows up as a different clip entirely! We're talking a whole different spot on the tape (which has different timecode and everything)!
Now, I've tried all sorts of combinations to avoid what is clearly a BUG in Motion, including re-capturing JUST that portion of the tape into its own clip. When I do that, in Motion, the second clip (the 50% speed clip) shows up as a static image of the very last frame of that re-captured clip.
I need to remove green screen and lay in an animation underneath the clip that's running at 50% speed, but right now I can't. Has anyone encountered this bug before? Is there a workaround?
I can't figure out how to make a clip slow-motion in Motion... if I could, I could just import the clip at full speed (that works fine).
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
OZ

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