Re: FCPX metadata--how significant is it? And why?

Tony,

You're entitled to find something cumbersome, specially if you didn't know it existed in the first place.
I guess this is why the debating forum is for, huh?

On the other hand, how is that custom window lay-out working for you in X? I find it extremely cumbersome to scroll down to negative space when having stacked clips to work with in a timeline that cannot be expanded.
But that must be only me, perhaps?

And Jeremy,

On systems I have been to, no beach-balling or crashing when searching at all. YMMV.
I can drag the resulting bin or some of the clips to a new timeline and have them all in there, nicely.
And they go to the sequence in the order that they are sifted in that resulting bin.
This is very, very helpful.

And all of this without breaking any project relationship. Expanding this search on that timeline, the Find command also selects all clips that I further search for, so I can then copy them or drag 'em to a higher position.

I'm taking your word when you said you didn't used it that much.
I like the former FCP for its flexibility, something the new generation of this software is going to miss.