Media organisation for fiction film editing

Hello.
If anyone had experience with FCPX and fiction film editing, I would appreciate if you could help me find out what is the best practice for organising and labeling the material.
I started editing on flatbeds, got used to MediaComposer and was probably one of the first people to use FCP for cinema fiction film editing. Recently bought FCPX, went through some tutorials and played a little, but I'm still not at home with it.
The projects I'm considering would be shot with either ARRI Alexa or Canon DSLR, thus each shot comes as a separate file, and would be labeled by the assistant according to marks on the slate. (We use Scene/Shot-Take system e.g. 5/3-2x). Sound is coming in separately as WAV files which need to be synced to the picture.
Also, if you have any comments on editing fiction narrative films with X, I'd be interested. I was quite distracted today when I realised that FCPX doesn't remember where I stopped watching a clip when I come back to it after taking a look at some other take or shot!
Also during today's experimenting it seemed awkward that MatchFrame (Reveal clip in Event browser) doesn't open the collection from where I actually inserted the clip.
Thanks.
Mato

Hello Matoid,
I am now facing the same situation that you did, and was wondering if you came up with workflow for editing a feature length film on FCPX.
I would specifically appreciate any advice on the following:
All the dailies are synchronized QT files organized by shooting day.  For instance, a file named Shooting Day 1 will contain all the synchronized dailies that were shot that day.  The files are in the following format:
Dimensions: 1920 x 1080
Codecs: Apple ProRes 422, Linear 422
Color Profile: HD (1-1-1)
Audio Channels: 2
Since I come from the old school of editing, I would like to organize all the material by scene, shot and take number, so the first question is, how should I go about splitting the files into single takes?
What I’ve done so far with the first two days of shooting is to create an event for each day, then select each take within the event, create a compound clip, and label it according to its slate info (Scene # +Shot + Take #).  Once I break up the Shooting day event into several scene clips, I create a new event and label it by Scene #, and then I copy all the clips from the Shooting Day Event that correspond to the Scene Event. Then I go back and delete all the clips from the Shooting Day Event and lastly y also delete the Shooting Day Event to make sure I am not doubling up on clips.
This seems to work, but I feel there must be a more effective way of doing it.
Another question I have is, should I assemble each sequence into its own story line and then string all the storylines together for the completed film, or should I just assemble everything in one story line?
I am sure that more questions will come up as the project evolves, but for the time being any advice on how to go about organizing the project would help me a lot and would be immensely appreciated.

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