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

While I am certainly growing to love X, I have to say that the way metadata is handled is CAUSING what I consider to be the biggest problem with X.

By apparently writing the metadata to the actual file, X chokes if the file is changed in ANY way.

This causes a myriad of problems by making stuff become unlinked (and worse, unlinkable).

I am not interested in doing any motion graphics or compositing inside FCP since the tools are always lackluster. So when I take a rendered item from After Effects and need to revise it, it is absurd that I can't just render the changed file again without having the changed file become an unrecoverable orphan and having to painfully import the rerendered file and replace the clips throughout the timeline.

This all worked fine and magically in FCP7.

Lance