Archiving a project without unused portions of clips

I have a library that contains almost all of my unedited video files. Some of the videos are very large quicktime files (an hour in length). I have a project in that library that I want to archive (consolidate?) to an external drive for backup  I'd like to copy the project to a new library (on an external drive) with only the used portion of the video.  I think FCP7 used to allow that and you could choose how long a "handle" of unused video you wanted to include.  Is there a way with FCPX to avoid including the entire hour long file and only archive the portions used in the project extra handles for future edit changes?
Thanks

FCP x doesn't have the equivalent of Media Manager. There are strategies for minimizing archive sizes like trashing render files and transcoded media.
There is also a third party app for archiving but I don't recall the name and I'm not at a computer for the next few days. I don't think that app saves selections of source clips either but it does simplify the process. Do a search. Good luck.
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