I have one long clip...how to split?

Because the only video files I have available are long clips, I need to split them into smaller, more manageable clips. I know how to just drag an in/out point clip from the sequence into my bin, but that just gives me a selection of the larger clip...I want a clip that I can edit more easily (i.e. make in/out points in it without changing how long the clip is).
I thought that this is what Make Independent Clip did, but it doesn't seem to. I just want to take part of my larger clip and make a normal, smaller clip in my bin.

Huh?
Of course you can mark In and Out marks in a Subclip in the Viewer. You load the master clip into the Viewer, IN, OUT, Command-U. Then you load the subclip into the Viewer. Then you mark your In and Out in the subclip...
Done.

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