FCP integrates with After Effects? Help!

I am doing an animation which comprises many videos and images flying across... My client wants me to deliver FCP file so he can update the videos/images himself later. But I am only good in doing animation in After Effects. I only know FCP for editing...
Question is, should I try doing all the animation in FCP instead? Is there a way I can still do my animation in AE, yet my client can easily do updates in the FCP file?
Please help! Thanks!

If you think that the animation functions in FCP will do what you need then go for it.
That way your client only needs a copy of your project -you can use the Media Manager to consolidate everything into a single folder, which you can pass on to them.
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you, it was a wonderful spring afternoon here so I spent some time with the lady artist who has the studio space under mine, drinking beer down by the harbor.

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