Motion exporting to FCP

Hi,
I was wondering how you should export a audio-behavioured project in motion (imported directly from FCP) to FCP again, without making a quicktime movie of it, which would take LONG time! Will you could make a .xml og something? - something which wouldn't take severel of hours...
hope anyone out there knows a soultion!
thanks!

Simply import the Motion project file and edit it into the FCP timeline.

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    Why would you export anything at all? Why not just import the Motion project file directly into FCP? And when you say "imported directly from FCP" do you mean you sent your clips from FCP to Motion? If so, if you select the Embed checkbox (selected by default) the Motion project will already be in your FCP timeline.

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