Final Cut working with motion

I am used to working with final cut express and livetype where I would do the following:
- edit my videos
-export to livetype
-create edit my animations / text over video
-import livetype files to my final cut project for final editing
I have just purchased final cut pro x and Motion 5 and cant understand how to acheive the same sort of workflow. I want to be able to edit my videos together in final cut and then take that into Motion to add my animations etc over the top. Is there no easy way of doing this? i.e can I export final cut project to motion or open the 2 together?
In Livetype it used to export final cut markers which was essential to adding animations at the right points in my edit?
Thanks
Alistair

Not sure why you're responding to me BenG (loved your movies by BTW, woof), but since you have responded to me I would agree ripple training is grand. Whether it's a more powerful workflow is certainly subjective. If someone is intimately familiar with LiveType, it's beautifully archaic GUI, and it's roundtrip features (not offered in Motion 5) then in practice for specific types of graphic compositing, LT is arguably a more powerful workflow. It all depends on your goals and your point-of-view.

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