Saving off copies of an FCP X project?

I'm new to FCP X and will be starting an editing project. I used FCP 7 and saved versions, along the way, of the project I was working on. I'm not sure of teh best way to do this in FCP X. IS there an effieicent way to save versions without creating redundancies in the clips used? Thanks for the hand with this.

You can duplicate projects without duplicating the media. If you want an autosave vault I'd suggest looking at Pro Versioner from Digital Rebellion.

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