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I have created a title sequence in LT 2.1.4. I created a .m4v slideshow video from iPhoto and placed this movie in the LT timeline around 5 seconds (it's the "display" iPhoto slideshow export size -- it's very large). The entire movie is a little under 4 minutes long.
When I place start/end points at about 0 and 30 seconds and File->Render Preview, the output is fine -- all the title sequences are there and the background movie renders properly. Woo hoo!
But when I File->Render Movie and watch the resulting .mov, the output is just plain wrong. The motion just stops periodically (i.e., there are many repeated frames -- for 2-10 seconds at a time), there are many missing effects, etc.
I have LT 2.1.4 -- is that the latest? I can't seem to find anywhere to download updates. I'm running SL 10.6.2.
Is this a known issue? Are there any workaround?
Let me know if I can provide any further details. Many thanks for any advice that anyone can offer.

Hmm.
1. I checked the LT docs, and it says that MPEG-4 is supported. I don't seem to be able to attach anything to this post, so I'll just have to cite that I went to Help->LiveType User Manual, and looked at page 43 -- it says:
"LiveType can import background elements in a variety of formats:
* MPEG-2 and MPEG-4
2. I used a slightly different export option in iPhoto to export the slideshow: selecting "custom export" selected saving to a "Quicktime Movie". This produced a .mov file. So I used that as my background movie in LT. But the same behavior occurs -- the preview rendering is fine (although there is no sound -- forgot to mention that in my original post), but the actual rendering (where it produces a .mov) is just wrong.
FWIW, running the "file" command on both of the exported iPhoto files (the .m4v and the .mov) results in "ISO Media, MPEG v4 system, version 2", whereas running file on the rendered .mov from LT results in "ISO Media, Apple QuickTime movie". It makes me wonder if iPhoto really made a Quicktime movie or if it just used the same mp4 encoding and just named the file .mov instead of .m4v...
I'll keep trying.
I suspect that you are right that the Best way to do this is to slurp in the movie into FCE and import the LT titles into it in a separate track. I might end up doing that, but I'd like to give my current approach a few more tries before I give up and learn more about FCE... it should work, according to the docs, anyway...

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