[Rob Mitchell]

Hi Sascha,

If I understand your point about merging or ‘subclips’ correctly. One way is to Link the now-synched rushes with cmd-L or Modify/Link on the Menu in FCP 7. (I don’t know about X?)
Select the synched clips on all the relevant tracks. (eg Video+Camera audio+GoodAudio) and press cmd-L or Menu-Modify-Link. Then when you select and manipulate one of the tracks, all will be selected. Thing is tho, you would have to do this one synched set at a time as it were. You can not select loads of clips and Link. I don’t think

Another way might be to use the sequence itself for editing. ie. Pull the synched sequence into another (let call it the Master Editing sequence) and edit on the Master sequence using the synched sequence as a clip. Everything will remain in place as it was on the timeline when you bring it in as a clip. I haven’t tried using that but it does work in principle. And it may be easier if you have lots of lots of footage rather than linking up all the synched clips individually. No doubt some organisation would be required to make the most of this workflow.

I know this answer is some 8 months after your query but it may help someone else. Be also interesting to know how you got on anyway.
R