Import parts of a movie

Is there a way to only import a portion only a portion of a clip of video? For example rather than importing an entire 5 min. clip, can I just import the first 2 minutes. The reason why I'm asking this is because I'm trying to save space on my hard drive and I'm really not using the entire 5 minutes of the clip.
Thanks for the help.
Jay

if it is one long clip i dont think so, but if you import the entire clip, use what you want for your project, then highlight event and "move event to trash" you will get option of trashing only unused, pick that , empty the trash, and I think that will do what you want to have happened by limited import
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