Apple Final Cut Express 4 - Manual (Page 277)

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Creating Subclips
Lengthy media files can be unwieldy for editing. If you
capture an entire tape as a single media file, you can break
the clip into shorter subclips. You can also break the media
file into smaller media files.
This chapter covers the following:
 Learning About Subclips (p. 277)
 Techniques for Breaking Large Clips into Subclips (p. 280)
 Automatically Creating Subclips Using DV Start/Stop Detection (p. 283)
Learning About Subclips
For organizational purposes, you can break up a single large clip into several subclips.
Subclips are defined by In and Out points or markers set in the original clip prior to the
creation of subclips. New subclips automatically become their own master clips, with
no affiliation to the clip from which they were created.
Subclips allow you to work more easily with lengthy media by breaking up a single clip
into many smaller pieces. For example, you can open a 20-minute clip comprising
15 different shots in the Viewer and divide it into 15 subclips, one for each shot.
Subclip
Clip