Major Workflow for Sports Team- H.264 and ProRes

I need some help hammering through my media management and workflow...
I'm trying to create an effiecient workflow to work with a sports team.
Currently I'm recording my games with a BlackMagic H.264 Pro Recorder, 720p 60fps, creating a 8-14 gb .mp4 file. (I will keep these files on a seperate hard drive as an archive of the entire season's games.)
Next, I need to take these .mp4 files into Final Cut Pro X, to cut clips of the "highlights" of the game and "individual highlights" of eacher player. Imagine each game containing 4-5 highlights for each player, creating a huge reel by the end of the season.
My plan is then to create a new event, importing the h.264 media file, creating ins and outs of the highlights, and drop them into to each players individual highlight sequence/project.
Example - I just imported 5 highlight clips for a total 00:02:45:00 (2minutes45seconds)
Now, these files are going to imported, rendered and transcoded for Apple ProRes 422. Are these files now ProRes, or are they Proxy ProRes, referencing the original H.264 media?
My concern is that I'm going to quadrupling my media when the H.264 to ProRes takes place in Final Cut Pro X.
My final output/export will likely be back to 720p 60fps H.264 .mp4 for iPad and other digital formats.
Am I making sense? Does anyone have any suggestions for improvement?
My Computer:
Mac Pro 5,1
2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
6 GB Memory
OS Snow Leopard
Final Cut Studio 3
Final Cut Pro X

creating ins and outs of the highlights, and drop them into to each players individual highlight sequence/project.
Rather, keyword each player, then you'll have a keyword collection for each player in the browser. You can have separate keyword collections for each player and for each game and for each type of action and group the each type of keyword collection into a folder.

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