Clearing images, but keeping Masters

I keep a referenced Aperture Library of both images and video.  My Masters are stored on an external hard disk, but my Aperture Library is stored on my internal HDD.  I would like to decrease the size of this Aperture Library and was considering deleting all of the videos and selected images.
My question is: if I delete these items, will "Delete Version" be adequate, or do I need to "Delete Master Image and All Versions"?  I want to keep an archive of my videos and selected images that I want to remove from my Aperture Library, so I do not want to delete the Masters.  Will deleting the versions do what I am hoping it will do - erase the associated data of the videos and images from my Aperture Library, but leave the Masters intact outside of Aperture to be used as an archive?
I was hoping I could do it this way, because I didn't want to have to go through the extra steps of exporting my Masters to a secure location and then first deleting my Master Images and All Versions in order to achieve my goal.
Any thoughts on this obscure request are appreciated.
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With referenced masters Aperture will not move the master to the system trash unless you tell it to do so. When you empty the Aperture trash if there are any version with referenced masters the confirmation window will have an extra checkbox which if checked will also move the referenced masters to the system trash.
However as you seem to be doing this in the hopes of reducing the size of your Aperture library I think you're going to be disappointed in the actual size the library decreases.  You also realize that while you'll still have the masters all adjustments, added metadata, etc will be lost.
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