Want To Use Motion 3 for :30 sec. Spots

I'm trying an experiment. I'm creating an entire :30 sec. TV spot in Motion 3. Since I have a beefy system, I figured why not, it may speed up my work flow. I'm surprised to find Motion struggling to play back fairly simple layouts. Better when I use the RAM preview, but not as speedy as I'd hoped. I'm only talking about a background movie, top and bottom rectangle bars, some static text, and some other short video clip popping in and out. Also a music track and voiceover.
I know I could do the round-trip thing, but was hoping to simplify things. Title 3D is very unusable since FCS2. Any old text clip has to be complety re-worked to fix the leading and the styles don't always show up in the editor. I love that I can type right on my layout with the style, which speeds things up.
But I'm finding some things missing in Motion that would make this idea more feasible, such as transitions (as opposed to keyframing), flicker filter, having playback not drop frames because it can't keep up.
Motion should be able to handle this easily, but I'm losing faith. Am I barking up the wrong tree?
Thanks.

I had to create an a :30 second spot in less than 10 hours, including client feedback, and changes. I created all the pieces for this one in Motion. Married the beginning and end and did audio editing in FCP.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN10_6pyshQ WARNING! politically charged content.
I definitely use the "round trip" workflow. FCP is the hub - whether for media in/media out/rendering/etc, I use Motion extensively, but audio and assembly and organizing - FCP is the way to be...
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