Organizing videos by year then event in folders?

I organize my photos in Aperture in folders by year then event..2011, 2012, etc. How can I do this in Final Cut....do I create a new library for each year? After a few years of video at almost every event I just have a string of events on the left column....seems this is getting too voluminous to manage without a folder structure. Thanks for your help. Karl

You could even make a Library for each month of each year. Depends on how much media you're collecting. Create a Library for May, then create a Smart Collection according to creation dates.
Or, create a Library for a specific year, then Events for each month. Then inside each Event, keyword each for specific event you shot.
Figure out what works for you. But don't make any single Event or Library too overwhelming. And remember, you can hide and show Libraries, so you only see what you need to see.

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The problem is that the files I am copying are getting stripped of the EXIF metadata
eliminating iPhoto from your work flow will eliminate one oppertunity to have this happen For photos in iPhoto it is best to export them rather than drag an drop them - this assures your EXIF and IPTC data is correct and uptodate
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I imported 5 1 hour old video in Final Cut Pro X. I spent all day seperating clips with Start and end then naming each clip in properties..
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I do understand that you have a lot of clips that you want to group by various subjects, like vacation, etc. That's a perfect job for keywords, which perhaps is what you used when you named them?
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I find that organizing albums per year is much more convenient than by alphabetical order.
And makes much more sense, to me.
Now this is no problem when you're in iTUnes, as you can visualize all your music both ways, per year, alphabetically (and many more, actually.
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1963 - The Times They Are a-Changin'
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Which works ok, but it's definitely ugly.
Let alone the fact that I cannot browse them alphabetically anymore and I find myself having an infinite lists of dates instead of a list of titles.
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(the way you do when you're in iTunes)
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I haven't tried this yet, but give it a whirl. Before the title of each album by an artist, put a letter in front. For instance, if you have ten albums under Dylan, put the letter "A" in front of the title of the earliest album, "B" in front of his second and so on.
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