DAM for video and integrated FCE - opinions?

I have just recently moved up to FCE 4 from iMovie 09, liking it a lot, and still going through Apple Pro Training book of course .
My workflow for pulling clips off of my Canon HF10 AVCHD camcorder is now either:
(1) if they were short clips with no real need for editing besides joining clips, then I would use the Turbo H.264HD app that came with my Elgato device to read of the HF10, combine clips, and output to AppleTV or other common format. Clips might or might not have gotten archived, and did via iMovie 09 archive feature to Drobo external hard drive(s).
(2) For more serious work/edits in FCE, use iMovie 09 archive feature to copy entire AVCHD directory from Canon HF10 to Drobo, and then use FCE Log and Transfer to bring in desired clips and copy to dedicated Scratch Disk for FCE. Once complete project is done, then export out from FCE, and probably delete clips off of Scratch Disk, but leave archive copy on Drobo with full AVCHD directory (and MTS files) intact on the Drobo.
The one kind thing I would like is some sort of DAM program to "oversee" the archive clips, with ability to keyword, quickly scan MTS clips, etc. I have found nothing that works. Aperture 3 does need read the AVCHD clips. I even tried the trail version of iDive, but it did not work well at all with the the AVCHD files, and wasn't fond of the UI layout (plus $80).
Does anyone have any other video DAM software recommendations? Or do all if you just ignore your archives once done with your FCE projects?
-Brian

This function will get you far:
function goScaledFullScreen()
    var screenRectangle:Rectangle = new Rectangle(0,0,stage.stageWidth,stage.stageHeight);
    stage.fullScreenSourceRect = screenRectangle;
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    stage.quality = StageQuality.BEST;
Independent of your actual monitor resoulution it will scale up any content you might load via loader to the full screen resolution.
It has its limits though: On a Mobile device it won`t reorganize the content if you rotate the device from Landscape to Portrait. Also if you have content that is off-stage you might have to employ masks if the Monitors aspect ratio differs from your presentation one`s.
You can use the Capabilities class to get the actual ResolutionX/ResolutionY of the device that runs your presentation.
You might want to somehow inform your presentation if the resolution gets changed via the Resize Event
If size is not an issue you might prepare your presentation in the best Quality possible (for example HD) because downsizing works in general much better (qualitywise) than upsizing.

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thanks. apologies in advance for the long post and slightly off-topic explanation. i am trying to organize things a little better and right now i have way too much data and not enough help organizing it. basically i am trying to move to a database management workflow because there is too much to remember in terms of where my data is. also - it is not LINKED together very well and the workflow to produce the final product is a little disjointed. basically i don't mind using Spotlight to search for files to get it all organized but once i find all my data i would like to get it linked up in a way that is better than dropping it in folders.
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