Help Request: Transition from FC Express to FCP X

I am tinkering with the trial version of FCP-X.
While it seems to do everything I want, I am having trouble figuring out a workflow to achieve the same results I get with Final Cut Express.
What I do with FCE:
Import data from cameras and other video sources
Extract clips from the "raw" video and put the clips into sequences
Then finally export the sequences tp Apple Intermediate Codec movie files.
From there, I can use iDVD or encode them for my iPod / iPad / AppleTV
In FCP-X, "projects" seem to be like FCE-sequences, but I have not yet figured out how to make video clips that I can arrange / re-arrange as I can in FCE.

You play the clips in the browser with JKL. You mark in and out with I and O. You edit into the timeline by dragging, with edit buttons, with the Edit menu, or keyboard shortcuts. Can't really teach you how to use an application on a forum. There are lot of training materials, books and online. Some have been updated since December. Anything older is probably only partially helpful as the application basics gave changed so much, though the edit procedures have pretty much remained the same.

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