Organizing acts and scenes

Hello All,
We do 30 minute movies at work for fun. In the past I'd used iMovie and am now trying Final Cut Pro X. In the movie we have multiple Acts and multiple Scenes within Acts. It seems to me to be better to not have these all in one Timeline in FCPX. I started down the path of having each Act be a Folder and each Scene be a Project. That seemed a great way to organize the sequences. It just struck me, though, will I be able to combine projects?
When I did this in iMovie each Scene was a project. I shared the Scenes when I was done with them and brought them back in to iMovie. That made working with all 30 - 40 minutes much easier.
What's the best way to do this with FCPX?

Hello All,
Honestly, I tried to search on this topic before I posted. Of course, once I posted, I found other threads asking the same question. Go figure.
For others that are looking, this one seems to be the best answer.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3336671?start=0&tstart=0

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fredward23 wrote:
> I am having a problem in which I have movie clips
containing tweens in a file
> containing two scenes. On publishing, the movie clips in
Scene A play fine, but
> the clips within Scene B are very choppy -- they appear
to be playing only the
> first and last frames of a tween.
>
> The tweens themselves are definitely OK -- sometimes it
happens that the clips
> from Scene B play fine, but then the ones from Scene A
don't work.
>
> To see specifically what is happening, you can go to
>
>
http://www.boston.com/news/specials/local/danvers_explosion/interactive_graphic/
>
> The file is done in two scenes -- one for the content
under the "The Blast"
> tab and one for that under "Getting Out." The pulsing
arrows on the map in "The
> Blast" are movie clips with motion tweens, and these are
working correctly. Go
> to "Getting Out," though, and the explosion symbol on
that map is supposed to
> expand and fade out, but as you can see, it's not
working. But as I said,
> sometimes that clip plays fine, but then the arrows (and
other clips in "The
> Blast") don't work.
>
> This is not the first time I've run into this bug, so I
don't think it is
> anything project-specific. Anybody have any ideas?
>

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