Migrate iMovie 10 Events to Final Cut Pro X

Can I migrate iMovie 10 events and clips to Final Cut Pro X?
When I search on migration, the posts talk about migrating the movies, not events or clips. However, I want to migrate my iMovie 10 library of 1000's of events and 10,000's of clips sitting in iMovie 10 to Final Cut Pro X. And if you can't migrate, is the expection that you re-catalog (associate with events, mark favorties, etc) five years of clips in Final Cut Pro X?
-- Mark

Tom, thanks.   I tried moving about 100 clips to a project and then within iMovie chose send to FCP.   It locked up iMovie.   But even using that method, since you have to move clips and not events, it forces to you recreate your events with the associated clips one event at a time.
In other words, the workflow is create a iMovie project with same name as event in iMovie.   Move all clips from event to the project.   Sent the project to FCP.   Create an event and move the clips to the event in FCP.   Tedious (not really practical) for 1000's of events!
So what if I want to abandon all my iMovie events and associated meta data.   How do I just import all of the clip files buried in the iMovie folder short of Show Package Contents and drilling down to each .MOV file?
-- Mark

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