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

In big projects I don't get beach-balls, I get that tiny spinning reel.I understand they are quite different, no?
But I would have to check on that, since in those projects the editors always break them up in sections in order to avoid this kind of problems.

The caveat with "Compound Clips" is that they increasingly bloat your project file further in time, as you create them. Not good. If you're using it, you should know it. But it will get better, huh?

As I said, I can sift that resulting bin, like the "reel" column and get only the ones I want to see in order, This at the browser level selecting "used media" then I drag them to a sequence with "Show Duplicates" selected and voilá. Workarounds aren't exclusive to FCP X ;-)

I give you that X is more promising in that regard, but it's not there yet-such a persistent adverb in here.