HT5958 Importing footage stored within the library FCPX 10.1

Hello, I like to put additional footage, photos into an event folder and then import the bits I want into the event within FCP X but now it's in a library that location is blanked out, I can't get to it on the import page. Any work arounds, ideas?
Thanks

Ok i was under the impression that libraries were a plac ewhere you can store everything, I had a load of photos for a timelapse that I stored in the event folder in a library, I then (using open p;ackage contents) got to that event folder and made the photos into a timelapse mov. When I went to import that mov into my event the location it is stored in (event folder in a library) is inaccessable, the library package is blanked out. Thanks for your time.

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Although it was possible to surf the iPhoto Library Folder in versions of iPhoto up to v6 it was never supported. Simply, there are no user-serviceable parts within the Library and you shold never try to access them.
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Using both iPhoto and Aperture makes no sense at all. Double the work, double the effort and lot of wasted disk space.
Seriously, rethink what you're doing. You're making things more complicated for yourself.
Thanks for that.
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