Switching to low-res photographs

Hi everybody. I'm working with a project with about 500 stills. I need to reduce the size of about half of them. The ones that need resizing are scattered across the project, in various bins, and they need to end up in those same bins when I'm done. (As media, they're scattered across four hard drives.)
Since I need to keep the original hi-res versions on our hard drives, I'm thinking that if I use reconnect media, I would have to tell Final Cut to choose the new low-res version FOR EACH PHOTO (an ignore the old hi-res versions), one by one. Is that right? Or is there a way to get FC to connect to all the new low-rez photos in one fell swoop, ignoring the pathways to the hi-res versions, but preserving the pathways to the hi-res photos that weren't changed?
My plan at the moment is to reveal each still in finder, resize the ones that are too big, import the new low-res stills, one by one, place in proper bin, and once each one is in place, delete its full-res doppelganger. (we're going to keep a hi-res version of the project as a back up, BTW). This will also be cumbersome, but at least I'll be able to follow each still from downsizing to re-entry back into the project, crossing bins off as I go, and I won't have to make a list of every still I downsized and try to deal with them later in reconnect media.
But maybe I'm missing something. Any advice would be appreciated.

Duplicate the originals in the Finder, somewhere very safe. Once they are backed up, go back into FCP, do a find for all the images you want to adjust so they are in a single browser window, then select all and say open in editor. (Make sure you have the program you want to use for image editing defined in the FCP preference.) Then, resize all the images and save them. Don't save as, you already backed up the originals. Just save. Once finished, go back to FCP and all images should reconnect. It might give you a warning that some aspects of the files have changed. Say ok. You also are going to have to resize them in the timeline. If you are going to have them all at 100%, tell FCP to reveal them in the timeline, and press cmd-opt-v to remove attributes, and check off Basic Motion. That will reset the size, rotation, and center.

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