Seeking Media Organization Advice...

Hello!

I am pretty new to FCP having recently edited a 3 camera stage production - very successfully thanks to help from Tom and others. Anyway, I now have great plans to gather and finally edit home videos for the last few years and I wanted some advice on organizing the collection for easy access. When I did this in the past with iMovie and iDVD I made 2-3 discs per year / organized by month such as "March - June 2005" and that type of formatting (organizing by year) works best for the way I think.

As I understand it, Libraries can be opened and closed at will - I had originally thought of making one huge library (as I have done in iPhoto) but it looks like I should perhaps have a Library for each year and then Events within the library organized by the month or special events, with separate Libraries for big projects like editing a stage production.

I'm seeking input just to make sure this makes sense and to get recommendations form experts on what they have done. I've found that it is much easier to head down the correct path early on rather than changing course later in this type of situation!

I would also be interested in how people are organizing old video - I have many years worth of fully edited DV video which I saved in that format (while also exporting to lower-quality DVDs) - and eventual plan is to reformat this into something to export into iTunes; hopefully Apple TV will become an even better gateway to get that content to our main TV.

Anyway, thanks in advance for any advice - I think getting input like this is one of the greatest advantages of Apple products!

Bob