Moving to Final Cut Pro/Studio from Final Cut Express 4.0.1

Here's the basic questions...
This is a full on different software app than the FCE on my machine right, not an upgrade?
Can I run them both independent of each other and still move some of my FCE projects over to FCP? Like untill I get my hands around FCP.
As always thanks in advance.

Yes, totally new software
FCE projects will migrate to FCP but once in FCP there is no way to go backwards
x

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