When you open a project from an earlier version of Motion in Motion 4, your project may not display as expected.
Programs
Motion 4.0
Solution
Motion 4 uses new color models to optimize image quality for broadcast and online media. This new color model has a different gamma value of 1/2.2, whereas previous versions of Motion used a gamma correction value of 1/1.8. As a result, a project that you open that was created in an earlier version of Motion may not display as expected.
Areas that may be affected include composite modes (sometimes called blending modes), gradients, blurs, and color casts applied to the imported file. If this occurs, it can often be corrected by applying a gamma filter with a value of 1.22 to the file or object before processing and another gamma filter with a value of 0.82 to the file after processing.
Cutting and pasting shapes, gradients, and other objects from an earlier version of Motion project into new projects may result in a poor value match in the Inspector, as these objects will be "blended" with the earlier version's color model.
If exact backward compatibility is necessary, export the project to a file from the version of Motion the project was created in. The resulting exported file can be imported into Motion 4 for further editing.