Capturing for the future

This may seem like a simple question, but I do not want to put days, weeks, or even months of work into this to find out I started wrong from the beginning.
I have VHS, Hi8, Digital8, and microDV tapes of family events that date back as much as 20 years ago.
These tapes are not all together. I may yet be finding odd tapes in boxes a year from now. The chronology of events does not necessarily go from one tape to the next. I may go from tape 4 to 5 to 6 back to 4 to 7 to 5 again... (you get the idea) to stay in event order.
What I'd like to do is start capturing these events into FCP as I have the free time. I just bought a 300GB firewire drive that should hold the captures. I envision date and event labeling each capture file. And once I've got everything, import files into a project, and start piecing together events as appropriate.
What I assume is that all I have to do is set the capture scratch folder to my new drive while I'm capturing these video events. I suppose I could bring ALL of my captures into one project, but I don't know if I really want to do that. Being QuickTime files I'm guessing I can rename them in the Finder if I choose after capture.
Then a year from now when I've got it all, I can start creating my timelines in 1 (or several) project(s).
...After all of that, is that a fare appraisal? Any further suggestions?
Thank you
G5 dual core 2Ghz, 2.5 GB, 160, 300GB & (2)300GBfw Mac OS X (10.4.8) FCE HD, FCSP5.1

You can certainly do exactly what you are suggesting. While you can change names in the finder, you can also log a name in the capture tool as well. IF you change the name in the finder then FCP will lose the clip in FCP so I wouldn't change them after they are in the project. Just capture at your leisure, use the same FCP project, the same drive and in a year when you are done, edit away! Or edit as you go along, that'll work too.

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