Cutting QT movie into smaller segments

I'm new at this so if this is a typical newbie question I ask your tolerence. I've looked through the archives about sub-segments but haven't found what I need. I'm trying to cut a QT movie file into smaller segments so I can rearrange the order of things. I'm unsure how this "make subsegment feature works. Do I have to make new In and Out points one at a time, then make each one a subsegment or do I make the primary sequence a subsegment then work on the subsegmented piece, placing new In and Out points in it?
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I'm trying to cut a QT movie file into smaller segments so I can rearrange the order of things
That's what editing is all about...
Do you mean you're trying to edit? in FCP? or you want to cut up your QT files outside of FCP?
I think you might have to do a bit of reading about basic 3-point editing techniques.

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