Best way to break up a one-hour video

I have some 1-hour HD television programs stored as .m4p files. As I recall they are about 9GB each. When I bring them in to FCPX the work files are about 60 or 65GB. This is all fine. I have enough disk space in my Mac Pro to work with them.
My question is: What's the best way to work with these files? Generally a 1-hour show will break down to seven or eight 5-minute to 8-minute segments. It's these that I want to edit. (Not for commercial purposes, of course.) What do you recommend to break up the 1-hour clip into half-a-dozen segments, to delete the commercials, and to have the separate clips in the Event ready to add keywords and move to the Project for editing?

I would open the original file in MPEG Streamclip and export the various subclips as ProRes files from there, then import them into FCP X. MPEG Streamclip allows you to easily mark in and out points for that purpose.
In any case, it is a free program so it won't hurt to try (and a tool that is useful for many occasions). I suppose Compressor may be an option also.

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