How to select unused portions of my clips

I shot a song/dance show during two different performances and have edited the best parts of both together. Now I'm wondering if it's possible to select only the unused portions of each performance — not to delete, as others have posted about — but to actually use, for outtakes, or to create a complete video that won't be seen on the DVD I create.
Is this possible?

When you drag clips or parts of clips from an Event to a Project, an orange coloured line is placed along the base of the clip in the Event for the parts selected. So, all the portions of clips (or full clips) that don't have the orange line will be the pieces that you've not used in the Project. So, the unused bits are easily recognizable.
You can now drag the unused portions to a new Project and then burn a separate DVD using iDVD. Or simply drag interesting segments from the Event to your original Project and use these at the end as out-takes. (NOTE: See CORRECTION below).
Note that the unused segments may be easier to identify and select if you drag the Event thumbnail slider to the far left position, so that each thumbnail represents half a second of video. The slider is positioned at the base of the Events Library on the far right. There is a similarly positioned slider for Projects.
Note also that when you trim or extend clips in the Project timeline, the orange line on the Event clip is shortened or lengthened accordingly, to match your adjusted selection. So, the unmarked segments in the Event are still a valid representation of your unused media.
John
CORRECTION:
I just remembered that when opening a new project, you will not see the orange lines, as they only appear when the original project is open. To overcome this, duplicate the original project (File>Duplicate Project when in Project Library view) then add the unused media to the end of that project. Now delete all the clips or part clips used in the original project. This will leave you with just the earlier "unused" media in the duplicate project. Sorry about any confusion!
Message was edited by: John Cogdell - added CORRECTION paragraph.

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