I imported into motion mainly because i had not yet installed FCP on my PB. But I'm almost positive importing a set of images into FCP does not make them a singel image sequence, but imports them all individually and thus you would have to drag each one into sequence and set it to be one frame. Also, I wanted to make use of Motion's superior vignette tool.
I suppose I could've color corrected at only one point in the movie, but I decided to start with doing it scene-by-scene in motion, and then I realized i still needed to tweak it a little bit in FCP.
My buddy's a professional skier.. the 'do is in right now. And he's not single.. sorry, Gary.
The snow... you're the first person to ask. We filmed one day, ran out of light, and then I went away for two weeks. We finished when I got back, after it had rained the snow away. I was pretty bummed about that.