Trying to reduce the size of Aperture library

I have a 295 GB library and a 500 GB Hard drive.
Trying to reduce size of Aperture library, (ver 3.4.3) have deleted lots of big videos, duplicates of big videos, lots of poor quality photos,  emptied Aperture trash and size hasn't changed. I don't know what else to do - I am cosidering splitting my library up into two - and keeping older stuff on an external - I like to have it on my laptop - so when I am at a show - I can show my clients, customers potential photos for purchase. I'd hate to have it all on an external.
I shoot mostly in RAW - so the files are quite large - also found 'some' dupes - and am afraid there are a lot more... Looking at the app ADD that someone suggested to see if that helps. However, if deleting dupes, then deleting trash doesn't change the size - not sure what's wrong -
I have shut down and restarted as well...
HELP

Have you emptied your OS system Trash?
The space isn't made available to any programs until you empty the system trash.
Click the Trash icon in the Dock, and then click the "Empty" button.

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