Editing in Pieces

I have been amassing material and editing sequences for a project I will be assembling later. I'll not need the individual projects or their media for this (thats why I have been editing in pieces) I want to export the individual segments as finished video files that I can assemble into the final project. What would be the optimal way to export and encode the individual segments for this purpose?
Dan

Thanks PeruBob, Bill, and John,
I appreciate your suggestions and welcoming me so kindly to this forum and am happy to be making new friends.
I can indeed keep all the media of the multiple sections, edit the sequences for individual segments, and then nest them into a bigger project as needed. Certainly.
I may end up doing that for the project I am developing.
There are instances where the segments I want to bring into the bigger project will be multi-cam shoots accomplished with multi-clip edits. These sections represent a large amount of media not all of which is present on the edited sequence but would be necessary on the source sequence from which it was synced. Ibelieve you need to keep the source sequence for a multi-clip and its components - I could be wrong - I'll check.
You do this a few times and you can be building a large project folder.
I have another series of short docs that I am producing here in town and they will have an opening and closing segment that will be the same (mostly) for each episode and I am wondering how to produce the bookends seperately and independently and use them as needed in the seperate episodes.
John Smith, I'll do a test using one of these losless codecs and see if the resultant big video file is smaller than the project folder from whence it came. This is kinda what I was wondering about. Which is a heavier pile of data - big lossless files or all the original media from a produced project.
Thanks, guys.
Dan

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