Motion 5.6 audio clip cuts the first second or two before it starts playing the sound
I saw this question asked a few years ago but didn't see a resolution. This is very basic. I have added an audio clip to my project, and wherever i start playing, it takes 1-2 seconds before the sound is heard. And when i export a movie file, that means the first 1-2 seconds of the sound at the beginning of the movie can't be heard.
The audio clip is fine since i can import it into FCPX and it works fine.
I'm running Monterey 12.0.1 on an iMac pro with plenty of horsepower (3 GHz 10-Core Xeon W, 64 GB ram).
Any help would be most appreciated.
iMac, macOS 10.12