Raw Image Sequence Workflow For Stop Animation

Hi There,
I'm making a music video using a bunch of stop animation stills shot using a DSLR. I'm trying to improve the speed of my current workflow so I can use the color correction features of Raw Processing to adjust and re-adjust shots.
The current workflow:
- Use Adobe Bridge to Process the Raw files and save out JPEGs
- Import JPEGs into Motion as an Image sequence
- Crop and resize the sequence to suit the shot
- Import the Motion file directly into FCP
- Render the the Motion file and edit to music
The main issues I'm having:
- When the JPEG image sequence is imported into Motion, it looks very desaturated
- Tweaking the colour using RAW processing requires going back to Bridge and starting again
Is there any kind of plug-in for Motion or FCP that will allow me to use Raw files and the color correction tools directly in either program?
Any suggestions or workflow tweaks would be most welcome.
Cheers

Hi There,
Thanks for all the replies. As you can tell I'm not a video guy so I guess it's time to embrace the video side as you say Adam!
Every shot was processed into JPEGs weeks ago, so time-wise it's not really an option to re-process everything - the deadline is today! A local editor/DOP I've talked to has said that by the time things go from 3072px wide to 1920px to 768px (local PAL TV) we won't notice any JPEG artifacts.
He agrees that JPEGs are not ideal but has said it will be OK - especially as it's a grungy stop animation rockin ' roll video created by the band. We want the highest quality possible but there is definitely a cut-off point as we're not professionals and the budget is literally $0.00, hence the limited equipment.
I've done some tests with TIFF files but motion won't display the size correctly for some reason - same with a PSD sequence. I like the PICT suggestion Mark. but I'd have to re-process the raw files in Photoshop as I can't save them directly from Bridge which is quicker.
Thanks for your reply Patrick, I got the size wrong. The files are between 3072px wide or 3888px wide depending on the camera used.
As it stands, all the shots have been processed in Motion and imported into FCP - and I can adjust cropping etc very easily back in Motion (thanks Adam). The only issue is that FCP won't render out a final movie (keeps crashing) so I think I'm going to render movies from Motion and re-import into FCP unless there is a better way to do it?
Thanks for all your help and suggestions, most appreciated.
Cheers

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