Deleting Unused Clips?

Is there a way to delete unused clips not used in a project? iMovie has that option, but I can't find it in Final Cut Pro X. Or is there a way to see which clips are used in your project and which are not?

Witih the project open, click the "Page" button in the lower left of the window. If you mouse over it, the tooltip will tell you it is the "Timeline Index". When you open it, by defauilt it will list all clips in use with that project. It will actually show you every "clipped clip". So if you have trimmed a lot of stuff and have 20 "subclips" of the original clip from the Event Browser, you will see 20 clips of the same name.
If you have played around in it, perhaps it will show other information. In that case, just click "clips" at the top and "Video" at the bottom.
It is a very useful little window. If you want to go to a particular clip in the project, just click on it in the Index.
If you have set up titles, click the "Titles" button at the bottom, and you can go to any title by clicking on it.
Similarly, if you have set up markers, you can click "tags" at the top of the window and "markers" at the bottom of the window, then click any name and go to the marker.
A feature I really love is being able to turn markers into "todo" items to remind yourself (for instance) to go back to put in a title, or work on the color correction a bit more, or whatever.
Anyway. More information than you asked, but that's the way to tell what clips have been used.
Unfortunately, having left many things out of FCPX from FCP 7, I guess they felt obligated to leave a few things out of "iMovie Pro" as well, and one of them is that cool colored bar that quickly informed you of what parts of what clips have been used in the project.

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