Livetype 2 or Motion 2 projects, better to render & import o

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Which gives best finished quality when working with a Motion 2 or Livetype 2 project into Final Cut Pro 5, should I prerender or just render in Final Cut Pro 5, or does it just not matter?
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Sebastian

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If you just import the project you can do a round-trip if you need to make changes. If you render and import you can't.< </div>
Personal preferences, mostly, I'd say. The benefits in performing the render are increased performance at the expense of possibly requiring additional rendering if you change your mind about something. But I rarely get stuff right the first few times and today's rendering capabilities/speed do not impede my editing. (Now, if Apple could just give us realtime alpha processing like any other respectable NLE...)
I love the ability to whiz back and forth between the apps and have the unrendered file immediately update back downstream. However, most of my projects contain dozens of LT and Motion clips these days. Not rendering the files creates terrible sluggishness on my system (allowing for possibly idiotic user error, of course).
What I would like to see is an automatic relinking to the newly rendered files instead of merely being able to auto-update the link to the project file. Umm, is that possible now and I've just missed it? AE can autolink to proxies, tremendously cool timesaver.
bogiesan