This is a fascinating discussion. I was just getting my feet wet w Protools before switching from 7 to X. Could anyone point me to a good audio tutorial on what is being discussed here? I’m totally sold on metadata and convinced that Avid and Premiere will eventually look more like fcpx. However, with larger more complex projects I worry that I’m gonna run into organizational problems with audio (or even exporting audio to Protools) that visually are just easier to deal with with rigid tracks and a standard mixer. It sounds like that’s not the case. If there’s a better way I would love to learn it. When I look it up I see only very elementary lessons on the audio portion of FCPX. Insightful post. Thanks!