New library or new project?

I Have just started using FCP X after using FCP 7 for many years. I went on a course of 3 days and came out more confused than ever. One mystery is this, the tutor said, "YOU MUST NEVER START A NEW PROJECT WITH 'FILE NEW PROJECT' YOU MUST START 'NEW LIBRARY' AND THEN IMPORT YOUR MEDIA AND ONLY  THEN CAN YOU START NEW PROJECT!" All well and good except last night I watched a good tutorial on FCP X hosted by a very good teacher and the first thing he said was, "To get started, go to file and start New Project, create an event and then import your media to this," I nearly fell over backwards in shock, because this seemed incredibly simple.Within 15 minutes of this tutorial I had learned more than 2 days sitting at a desk.
Can anyone advise who is correct, my tutor from Mars or the YouTube tutorial? BTW all my projects start life from SD Cards with HD material on them, in this case some with 50 FPS and some with 30 FPS (action cam) it must all be finally exported in Pro Res LT 25P 1920 x 1080.

FCP X when newly installed will by default give you one Library and one Event in that Library.
You can add a Project to this default setup immediately.
However, you can create new Libraries and an Event will be added, any Library will always have one Event. Try deleting the last one, it won't allow it.
As Russ points out: Libraries are the main container in which Events reside. Events are where Projects go.
Any Library can have new Events added in addition to the default.
Any Event can have multiple Projects.
Regarding the Timeline and Project settings:
The first clip that is added to a blank Timeline dictates the Project settings based on the clip specs. eg a 50P 1920 x 1080 inserted clip creates a PAL HD 50P Project.
You can override this auto select setup by manually creating a Project.
When Exporting you can change to codec to ProRes LT regardless of the origin.
Al

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