I need a quick way for extracting 100's of clips.

I have 90 min of video that we used for an old show and I need to pull out 100's of 3- 10 second clips and loops for use in another program called Arkaos. What is a good technique for grabbing and exporting quickly?
Thanks,
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Is the video already on your computer in a Quicktime file? Me, I would use MpegStreamclip (free) using in and out points (i and o keys) and export that clip. Fewest clicks, highest quality, quickest. Just put a folder on your desktop for the clips to go to.
Is the video in already in iMovie HD? You can select that small clip and export making sure you check off the box that says to export only the selected clip. But 100s of clips, that is a lot of selecting and exporting in iMovie HD. IMovie 09 is built for that, but still, the fastest and easiest way that this non-expert knows is to make it into the highest quality quicktime movie I need, and then select and export using Streamclip.
But iMovie HD experts may differ. Lot of different techniques out there is my guess.
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