Keith,
I was interested to read your post as we’re having a small issue with a process very similar to yours. We’re working with a Facilis SAN setup and 2 workstations.
You wrote, “We store our media centrally and do not want it copied into the event folder. If that’s the way you want to do it, make sure to turn off “copy imported media into event” in the preferences. When that is off, it will just drop an alias in the event folder.”
We’re having trouble with FCPX not creating alias’ when we import our footage from the central storage in this way.
Did you ever encounter this?