Been learning Final Cut Express - same keys in FC X? Easy to pick up?

For the last 3 months I've been diligently working through Tom and Apple's FC Express books. I'm almost ready to release the first of a stream of church services to the local cable companies for weekly air time.
For budget reasons we've been working just with one camera and were about to move to FCP and another 2 cameras (with Plural Eyes to synch their footage).
What should I do now? Will I find FCP X similar to use (my needs are quite simple but I don't want to have to learn a new set of key commands from scratch)? Or should I upgrade from FCE 4 to the old FCP and stick with that for a bit?
I'd appreciate some seasoned advice!?
Patrick
soulsharbourchurchofgod.com SW Florida

Yeah, Apple has made a lot of people unhappy by pulling FCP7 while releasing FCPX which doesn't meet a lot of pro users needs. That being said if your are upgrading from FCE, FCPX will have a lot of cool stuff. It will be a very different editing and organization system, which is more similar to iMovie then Final Cut. Though in my experience so far about 80% of the keyboard shortcuts are the same, and you can customize the keyboard all you want.

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