How select a range or portion of a clip when importing?

Upgraded from FC Studio 5.1 to FCP10.1 when importing media (mp4 or AVCHD) from the hard drive how do I select a range or portion of a clip in the media import window if I do not want to import the entire clip into FCP. At this point I can select the entire clip indicated by the yellow outline around it however there does not appear to be any way to click drag to resize the yellow outline to select just a portion of the clip.
Thanks for any help.

So if I have a 500mb .mp4 clip I have to import the entire clip? No possible way to select a range? However FC alows native folder AVCHD clip portions to be imported, very interesting.
If I connect my Canon xa20 via USB to my iMac would FC then alow me to select clip portions (AVCHD or .mp4) to import?

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| 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | 1 | | 1 |00:00:02.31 | 68351 |
| 1 | SORT AGGREGATE | | 1 | 1 | 1 |00:00:02.31 | 68351 |
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| 0 | DELETE STATEMENT | | 1 | | 0 |00:00:05.94 | 53247 | | | |
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|* 5 | INDEX UNIQUE SCAN | PURMAR1 | 7 | 1 | 7 |00:00:00.01 | 4 | | | |
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| 0 | DELETE STATEMENT | | 1 | | 0 |00:00:00.01 | 94 |
| 1 | DELETE | INTSFI | 1 | | 0 |00:00:00.01 | 94 |
| 2 | NESTED LOOPS SEMI | | 1 | 9226 | 7 |00:00:00.01 | 27 |
| 3 | NESTED LOOPS | | 1 | 9226 | 7 |00:00:00.01 | 9 |
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|* 5 | INDEX UNIQUE SCAN | PURMAR1 | 7 | 1 | 7 |00:00:00.01 | 4 |
|* 6 | INDEX RANGE SCAN | INTSFI1 | 7 | 14M| 7 |00:00:00.01 | 18 |
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 filter(NVL("S"."RGCID",(-1))=NVL("I"."RGCID",(-1)))the above post is from Ahmed AANGOUR
Case 1 - . If you check Plan hash value: 16772749938
=====
TABLE ACCESS BY ROWID RANGE| INTSFI For every row access from INTSFI - it fetches a record from INDEX UNIQUE SCAN | PURMAR1
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|* 2 | HASH JOIN SEMI | | 1 | 9226 | 7 |00:00:05.94 | 53180 | 783K| 783K| 471K (0)|
| 3 | NESTED LOOPS | | 1 | 9226 | 7 |00:00:00.01 | 10 | | | |
|* 4 | TABLE ACCESS BY ROWID RANGE| INTSFI | 1 | 9226 | 7 |00:00:00.01 | 6 | | | |
|* 5 | INDEX UNIQUE SCAN | PURMAR1 | 7 | 1 | 7 |00:00:00.01 | 4 | | | |My understanding with above plan would change to
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2 .
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to go push_predicate hints - still doubt it.
Jonathan your comments are most valuable in the above two cases..
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