Creating A Catalog of Video Clips

Need advice on this one. I have over 30 hours of old analog home video which I would like to catalog on my hard drives in the form of small event related video clips. I would like to import the video to my mac, create and name each clip and save it to a folder without it being associated to an imovie project. I would than like to import video clips into an imovie project as I need them. This will give me the distint advantage of easly having access to 20 years of video, enabling me to create movies with clips from any time period. (Ultimatly I would like to be able to search the video catalog by file name i.e. all the clips with "Birthday" in the title). I have encountered several problems trying to accomplish this:
1. I have been importing with imovie which then assocaates the clips with a project.
2. imovie will not "start a new clip at scene brakes" because this is analog video converted to digital. So all video is importrd as very large clips (I would have to manually create clips during import).
3. I can't cut up large video clips in imovie, rename and save them on my hard drive. imovie always seams to save the entire original large imported clip and will not reconize the edited smaller clips (I think this has to do with non-distructive editing). As an example, if I import a 15 min 3gig video clip into imovie, then in imovie cut the clips into 3 five min clips and then save each on to my desktop, I end up with (3) 3gig files. This seams to be a waste of drive space.
Using imovie HD (will be upgrading to ilife 6)
Anyone have any suggestions
Thanks
Rich
imac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.4)

Hi Richard:
Would either of these third party programs help?
FootTrack
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/foottrack.html
A digital video Hub for all your movie data ...
http://www.aquafadas.com/idive-digital-video/mac-video-editing.html
Sue

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