Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - Manual (Page 371)

36 Part I Organizing Footage and Preparing to Edit
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.
Final Cut Pro places new subclips in the same Browser bin as the original clip they
came from, automatically appending the word “Subclip” to the name and numbering
each successive subclip you create from a particular clip. For example, if the original
clip is named “Debra enters cafe,” the first subclip is named “Debra enters cafe Subclip,”
the second is “Debra enters cafe Subclip 2,” and so on. When a new subclip is first
created, its name is highlighted and ready to be changed.
You can rename subclips, move them into different bins, and organize them in any way
you choose. After you’ve created your subclips, you can open them in the Viewer and
set new edit points, just as you can with any other clip. The original clip remains in the
Browser, but is completely independent of your subclips. Any changes you make to a
subclip are not applied to the original clip.
Numbered subclips are
placed in the same bin as
the master clip.