Organizing in Aperature from iPhoto

Is this true: I can rearrange photos within a project, and I can also rearrange photos in an album. If I delete a photo from a project it is gone forever. If I delete a photo from an album, the photo is deleted from the album without deleting the photo from the library.
By doing it this way, it is so much easier to import the album into iMovie in the sequence I want.

I can rearrange photos within a project,
Yup.
and I can also rearrange photos in an album.
Yup.
If I delete a photo from a project it is gone forever.
Yup.
If I delete a photo from an album, the photo is deleted from the album without deleting the photo from the library.
Yup.
All the same as iPhoto, except that you cannot manually arrange photos in an Event.
Regards
TD

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