Automatic clipping at scene breaks

Is it possible to create short clips automatically from a long clip that was saved using MPEG Streamclip? I need the clips to happen at scene breaks like imovie does when importing from a camera. I am hesitant to use "limit scene length to x minutes" in preferences because I don't want breaks in the middle of a scene.
Thanks for any suggestions.
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Hi
NO. In neither iMovie, FinalCut Express or Pro is there a pictur analyzing tool
that can determine when a scene-break occurs.
Rumor says that this exist on the PC-platform: Adobe Premiere or ev. Pinnacle.
No secure info.
Scene breaks are set by the time-code and this isn't included when going from
eg. VHS tape material or other movie files converted one way or another.
Tough luck. - Only hard and tedious work to cut up manually. Sorry
Yours Bengt W

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