Final cut pro using all of my memory

So I have the latest version of Mavericks (as of late July) and the latest version of Final Cut Pro (10.1.2). Now I am creating a short film for my Extension English major work and I am editing with Final Cut Pro, the problem that I am having is that the program keeps using up all of my memory under the "other" field. My "Other" usage is weighing in at around 60GB as of now. I do own a 2TB harddrive and my MacBook is 120GB (with HSC documents that I need to keep or else my future as a human is basically pointless).
How am I able to continue editing my project without using all of my memory. is there an autosave switch i need to turn off, is there a problem with my software!?!?
Please help!

You really need to get an external drive – Thunderbolt, USB3, or Firewire 800 – depending on the vintage of your machine. And you should get a second external for backup. (Sorry to be spending your money for you, but it's important; drives fail – both spinning drives and SSDs.)
Put your media, and your libraries on the external drive. You can drag the libraries you have now to the new drive, working in the Finder, with FCP closed,. Before you do that, it's a good idea to select the libraries and use the Consolidate Library Files command. WHen you drag a library to another drive, it will be copied. Before you trash the duplicate libraries on the boot drive, open the new libraries to make sure they work properly.
Good luck.
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