Best way to handle large number video files for a project..

Hey, I was looking at getting some insight from the community here. Bascially there is a project that is being worked on that requires large amount of footage to be sifted through that only a small percentage will be used. These are mostly HD files and while most of the footage has been watched on Quicktime with notes taken, my question is this.
What is the best way to take only small portions of each file without having to load everything into final cut and without any loose of quality. Should I just trim and rename from Quicktime or is there an easier way?
Reason this needs to be done this way is the smaller segments will each be sent to other editors and rather then send huge files we want to split it to smaller amounts for each editor to use.
Thank you so much for any input regarding this, I look forward to what you have to say

Open the clip into the viewer. Mark In and Out points on the section you want. Make it a subclip Cmd-U. Drag the subclip into the bin for the editor who needs it. Repeat.
If you batch export from a clip there is a selection to choose whether to export the whole clip or check box to export the marked I/O.
This does not sound like a good project on which to being learning FCP.

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