Removing light flickering from FCE exported film

I am using a Panasonic AVC video camera. Every time I export films from FCE4 the files show a constant flickering of light (like a mild strobe light effect).
Does any one know how to remove this? I am exporting to a Quicktime file - so am not compressing the file.
I don't have any plug ins - but am willing to consider this solution.

I can't answer your question but it is possible you may be misunderstanding "Motion" as there are two of them!
One is the Motion tab/window in the Viewer in Final Cut Express and Pro.
The other is the complete application called "Motion" which is part of the Final Cut Studio suite of apps.
I suspect it may be the latter one you need.
By the way, the URL you posted is corrupted in some way and doesn't work.
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