[Tim Hiatt]

I realize this is a month late, but I just had the same problem. I’m using a number of Motion clips in the timeline and when I tried to render or export it kept crashing with the same kind of error message. I solved it by first breaking the whole sequence into smaller sequences (cut and paste sections of the sequence’s timeline into new sequences). Next I placed in and out points a few seconds apart on the timeline and rendered tiny bits at a time. It took a long time, but it worked. Then, when I had it all rendered, I pasted it all back together on a new sequence timeline. It then exported without crashing. If it still crashes, I would suggest exporting each smaller sequence as QT movie file and then paste those together into a new timeline and export. I suspect that if I had exported my Motion files as QT movies directly from Motion and then imported them to Final Cut Pro, I probably wouldn’t have had the problem. I’ll try that next time.

[Tim Hiatt]

I’ve been using FCP for several years and have had the same problem often. I have never been able to solve it until just now. I was working on a project and the text was jagged and showed strong interlacing lines. After trying all kinds of things, I went into the Sequence, Settings, Field Dominance, then changed it to None. Suddenly the text looks great. I exported the movie and the texts are smooth and they don’t jerk around anymore either. I hope this works for you.