Thank you guys, you may well be better than 90 day telephone support but you are less immediate and I needed Motion for work. I just think Apple should tell us up front there is no telephone support if you aren't American.
So if you want to give it a go the two current problems are both export ones.
When I export a project, every six seconds a pop up window (that was onscreen for such a fraction of a second I couldn't read it, much less click on it) popped up and knocked me out of whatever I was doing into Finder which is really tough if you are trying to work. This even less funny when you are stuck with it for 6 hours while Motion exports your 40 minute project.
I eventually filmed and freeze framed it to read it. It was one of those things you get from time to time that wants you to allow incoming communications through your firewall but as it was there such a fraction of a sceond no matter how hard I tried I couldn't click on it. I also couln't find Motion, or it's Export sub program in the Firewall seetings or add the Motion Export sub program to the firewall settings (sorry can't remember it's name) because it isn't in the Applications folder and running a search on it didn't find it either.
I evenually found an update setting in Motion Preferences that was set to 6 seconds.
So I changed the setting to every ten minutes and now I only get knocked out of whatever I'm doing every ten minutes.
The second problem was that my export crashed every time. It didn't crash staright away, it knocked me out of whatever I was doing with it's wretched pop up every six seconds for about 4 hours and then it crashed.
After about 5 goes, and also after I changed the pop up settings to 10 minutes, I finally managed to export successfully.
But I'm not in love.
How can I sort out this pop up issue properly and why is Motion crashing?
Thanks