Editing clips and preserving frame rate

Occassionally I take a rather long video and a significant portion of it has no value to the final project.  I am aware there is a way to only import parts of the clip directly from the computer, but as I understand it the file will end up on my internal hard drive.  I would prefer to keep all of my clips on an external drive.
Question one: Is there a way to do that?
I have some larger video files that are on my external drive and I would only like to import part of them. I want to preserve the frame rate at 60 or 120fps so I can get good slow motion when I edit the video in my project. I tried to edit the file in FCPX and then export it, but I can only find a way to export it at 30fps.  I was hoping to export and archive those files for future projects and then delete the larger video files.
Question two:  Is there a way I can edit clips that were shot at 60 or 120 fps so I can then re-import them into FCPX for future use?
Not sure if compressor can help me with any of this.  Any help would be appreciated!

1.  You understand wrongly. The imported media goes to whichever drive you designate. The file exports in whatever frame rate the project is. If you're trying to create slomo with your 60p media you edit in a 30p project. That's what you export. You can edit in a 60p project but that would defeat the purpose of bring able to confirm the video for slomo.
2.  You might be able to edit in the QuickTine player to trim a shot.

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