Apple Final Cut Pro X (10.0.9) - Manual (Page 18)

Chapter 2 Final Cut Pro basics 18
Events and projects
In Final Cut Pro X, you use events to collect and organize media. Events are like folders that
contain unedited media imported from a camera or some other source.
You use projects to edit and construct movies and share them with your audience. A project is
a record of the work you do in the Timeline and the editing decisions you make. When you add
a clip from an event to a particular project, you create a link between the source event clip and
the corresponding project clip (and, by extension, between the event and the project). However,
neither the event nor the source clip is contained within the project. You can use that event clip
in other projects, and your project can use clips from other events.
The illustration below shows the relationship between events and projects: Final Cut Pro X keeps
track of the links between project clips and their source event clips, but projects and events
remain independent.
Project
Project
Event
Event
Event
Event