Media management questions iMovie vs FCP events

I have more than a Terabyte of video in a series of imovie events that are in chronological order and and keyworded. I like to create new projects that include video from this vast library of events that I can search through to find. I recently moved to final cut pro x and decided to import all my old imovie events. I am using a 27 inch imac with 3.4 GHz intel i7 24 G ram and fusion drive. After importing the imovie events, FCPX now takes close to 10 minutes to load each time I start it up (imovie opens in about a minute reading the same video in imovie events).
Is it a bad idea to have so many final cut pro events to load? Is it necessary in FCPX to keep only the media I'm using in the event for each project?
I feel like i have to use imovie to manage and keyword my entire ibrary of video clips in imovie events and then import only the videos I need for each specific project into FCP. Was there a problem importing the imovie events instead of importing all the video directly into FCP events?
In FCPX is it best to keep events to a minimum and have each project correspond to a similarly named event with just the video Im using? I wish final cut pro and imovie would share the same library the way aperture and iphoto do for events.
Thanks!

I have about 4TB of iMovie Events which I imported to FCPX. My startup is going pretty quickly, maybe 30 seconds.
One thing I learned is that FCP does not duplicate the iMovie events. It creates a new FCP Event Folder, and in the folder is a hard link to the iMovie clip - so space is not doubled. (This would not be true if you imported the imovie events to a different drive, so you want to keep them on the same drive.)
Having said that, there is a tool for quickly taking Events off-line. I haven't found the need for it yet, so I just keep everything online.
http://assistedediting.intelligentassistance.com/EventManagerX/

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Hello Final Cut Pros,
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1) I created an Event called ALL EVENTS
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I am just about convinced that I am about to be totally emabarrased by someone's 1 or 2 sentence reply to this post explaining what I need to be doing that will not consume days if not weeks of my time like the steps I described above in order to have a By Year and by Month view of my videos.
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WOW, my frustration is mounting to no end. Tom, I have searched over and over again. There is nothing out there that addresses my very, very clearly stated predicament in this post. While I most definitely appreciate your response to my post, please notice that you also are not directly addressing and answering my question. Leaving me to continue to suspect that the answer is simply that no there is no way to get a view by Year and By Month without putting in weeks of work". I am looking for a white paper from Apple that addresses the followign question exactly,
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I AM NOT the only person who had all their clips in EVENTS. THe EVENT in the new media management is nothing like the EVENT in the old. Actually the fact that named it EVENT may be adding to the confusion.
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MY quetion is simple. Can someone please help me.
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I noticed an option on media manager that asks if you want to base media file names by their exsisting file names, or clip names.
She does a decent job correctly labeling her clips in the bin, just not the captured source files, by basing the media on clip will it solve my issue mentioned above? <
Unknown, sorry, this is why you want to run a test, probably more than one. The source media files will not have exactly the same names--oh, you have separate capture folders. Okay, this WILL be a problem.
<div class="jive-quote">2. Deleting unused media...I should uncheck this right? otherwise i may loose clips I need or want to use? Is this why the green bar labeled modified is smaller than the original bar? What does including affiliate clips outside selection mean? < </div>
This is one of the things that tells me MM was designed by or purchased from someone who has not prior knowledge of FCP. This actually means the copy will forget and refuse to copy over any unused media. But it scare the bejeezus out of everyone. "DELETE?" Ohmygawd, NO!
3. And my best bet for right now is to copy the media, rather than move, decompress, or use existing? that way if anything messes up, i can still use her drives. < </div>
Affirmative. Still, make some tests so you are confident with the MM results. You're on the right track, luck.
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