Can I cut dv files and keep them as dv files?

Hi, I have just spent the last few days importing about 60, 45min VHS PAL analogue tapes through a Canon Mini DV camera into my iMac and out to an external HD. All the files have been saved in .dv format and each is about 9.1 GB is size.
The videos are from 1995 throught to 1998 and are holiday video and as the camera use was in its infancy there was a LOT of very bad and useless shots captured. I didn't have the luxury of stopping and starting the capture, as was not able to capture it through FCP, I had to capture it in one tape at a time as I was digitalising it at the same time using an old application called Vidi.
So now I have all of them there I would like to be able to cut out the rubbish bits, before I bring it into FCP for the serious editing.
What I want though is to still keep the files as .dv files after I have done this and everything I have seen seems to, once I have opened them up, want to save them in a different format.
Has anyone seen an application, with features like QT Pro 7, that I can use that will scrub through the files, cut out the rubbish and save it in its original format?
Thanks
Matt

What you want to do is really very, very simple.
Step 1. Switch on your camera and make sure it is set up to record in SP mode with audio at 16 bits.
Connect your video deck, camera and computer. Switch all devices on before starting FCP.
Step 2. Open FCP. Before you do anything else go to the menu bar...
The Easy setup window opens. Make sure it looks like this...
Click the Setup button when it does.
Back to the menu bar...
The Sequence settings window opens. It should look like this. You can skip the next step if it does...
You have something else? No need to fiddle about. Click that "Load Sequence Preset" button at bottom left.
Click OK to dismiss this window.
You now have the correct settings. Click OK to dismiss the Sequence Settings window.
Go to the File item in the menu bar and choose Log and Capture. Adjust the settings on the right side so that they look like this...
Don't change anything else. Start your tape and click on the Now button at bottom right. To stop a capture, press the esc key. The captured clip will land in FCP's Browser.
You have two basic ways to trim the clip:
1. Load the clip into the Viewer. Mark in (press the i key) on the first image that you want. Mark out (press the o key) on the last image you want.
Edit this clip to the Timeline by doing one of the following: Drag the clip to the Timeline. Drag the clip to the Canvas. Press the F9 key.
There may be other sections of this clip that you also want. Find it and repeat the mark in/out procedure.
2. Place the entire clip on the Timeline. Mark in and out on the section that you don't want. Press the Forward Delete key.
Eventually, you will have a result that you want to save. To save on your computer go to the File menu...
You will see the Save dialog. Make sure it looks like this (obviously your destination will not be the same as mine) and press OK...
Most of all, have fun.

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