Media Manager in FCPX?

Hey everyone,
I couldn't find this addressed anywhere so if it has been already, I apologize.
Does anyone know if there is the FCP 7 equivalent of the Media Manager option in FCPX? I'll explain my situation...
I work in a high school and cut highlight reels for our football players. By the end of the season I have literally hundreds of GBs of footage on my hard drive. In FCP 7 I would import all of the footage into my project and then cut out only the plays I needed. I would end up with a 5 minute video. I wanted to save the project in case the player wanted any changes down the line and I also wanted to back it up in case of a hard drive crash. What I would do is run it through Media Manager so that the whole project would compress down and only copy the files that were actually used in the video. I would end up with a project and copied reference files that only took up a few GBs at most. That was easy to archive and back up.
I'm cutting highlight reels this year using FCPX for the first time. I've finished the first one and have been genuinely happy with the workflow of the actual edit. Somethings have been much easier for me. However, as I'm wrapping up the first couple, I went to recompress them using to Media Manager to archive and back up and can't find the equivalent in FCPX. I've searched around a bit and also can't find anyone who has already addressed this issue.
Anyone out there having this same issue and found a solution? It would be a huge help...

dknight38 wrote:
… would end up with a project and copied reference files that only took up a few GBs at most. …
… for one player.-
I fully understand what you'd like to accomplish.
but - theoretically - with your method you save the same material again and again:
aside close-ups, you frame more than one player in a sequence.
with FCPX actual method, that single Event serves many Projects.
so, you SAVE space without consolidating every Project.
plus, the 'duplicate Project' dialog allows you to transfer a Project and only USED clips to some ext drive.... keep that version, and erase original Project & Events.

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