Aperture Stills Question

FCP X 's browser will show me my stills in Aperture, but only the masters are showing. I would like to use a version of the still ( one that has been cropped and has other adjustments done to the still image. Is there a way to see and bring in the versions ?
I shoot most of my stills in RAW using a very flat picture style, ( same as the video) and then each one is adjusted. With Final Cut Express I would export my stills and resize to 1920 x 1080 on export. The newly exported jpegs woud be on the media scratch drive.
As I am typing my question it occurs to me that I might be better off using my previuos work flow for these large raw stills. While it would be nice not to have duplicate files ( one RAW and one JPEG ), FCP X might not be the best software for resizing raw stills. If I were contiuue with my older work flow where would the best place to put the converted and resized exports?

BenB,
Thanks for sharing your results.
I did a quick test also.
I creatred a new project and droped a clip in that was a 1920 x1080 29.97 fps AIC. ( It's AIc because it was on the media drive via a FCE lOg and transfer). So by my understanding my project is now 1920 x 1080 i 29.97 fps. I brought in 2 stills form the browser under Aperture. One was a 5616x3744 RAW picture the second one was a 3680 x 2070 JPEG ( a still from a video camera ).
In both cases the Background wheel was gray for a few seconds and then went to green, so some work was being done to the stills.
Clicking on the info button while the still was selected showed that the JPEG still was now a 1840 x 1035/60 fps JPEG.
The RAW still became a 2808 x 1872 /60 fps JPEG.
I am somewhat surprised at the dimensions of the stills and really surprised that they are 60 fps !
Whats up with that ?
FCP X seemed to handle resizing the RAW stills very quickly, now a whoe batch of them might be more noticeable. I haven't tried applying any effects or exporting them to see what they might look like. I may try that later.
If I can't find my versions of Aperture stills in the browser I guess I will use my old work flow and export the versions to a folder on the media drive. Then import them.

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