Speed Changes  / Motion import

I have a particular shot -- I razor bladed in into 7 sections. Most are set to speed 100%, but some are set to 50%, 125%, etc. On two of the slices, I also used the "Curve from beginning" thing in the new speed change window (FCP v7)
OK now -- How do I import this sequence into Motion? I want to replace all the speed change effects in FCP with Optical Flow.
Can this process be streamlined or is is manual? IS there are way to maintain the curves in Motion?
Thanks
Steve

Even if I try to do the speed change natively in Motion, it still yields the same result in terms of what part of the source footage it's looking at.
In this case, if I wanted to do use the optical flow option, I would do it in Shake because the source footage is an hour long, and Motion has to analyze the ENTIRE source file rather than just the part that's being referenced. (Annoying) Shake does only the part you are using.

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