One giant clip to be edited down

I have a HUGE raw footage clip that has over 100 scenes in it and over 45 minutes long. I want to be able to create individual clips for each scene. Right now I am editing it in the source window and making in and out points for each clip. I have only done 10 clips and I am already about to go crazy. Is there an easier way to cut my large movie into smaller clips?
Thanks

Hi,
Hmmm...so you are basically going from source monitor in out points to project panel and making subclips , renaming and dragging them down to timeline ?
What you're doing in essence is making what used to be called a " print " in film...getting the good stuff out of the whole thing...
Then you'll use THAT stuff to make a rough or final cut...
Maybe do this instead....make several sequences called " print1-1st-10minutes", "print2-2nd-10minutes", print3-3rd-10minutes, etc ....
Then you'll also have a sequence called "roughcut"....( eventually you will take the best parts of the prints and put into roughcut sequence...)
Instead of making subclips ( where you have no handles to expand the video toward head or tail....for minor adjustments later )...just drag the in out points to your "PRINT" sequences, without renaming....
Since it's in 10 min sections it won't seem quite so retarded....tedious...etc...the timecodes can be your " filenames" in essence...no need for subclips.
As you take the "PRINT" sequence stuff into your "roughcut" sequence raise that video clip up one level of video on the timeline of the "PRINT" timeline..so you know visually what you've USED ....dont have to scrub through the whole thing to find new stuff...easy to see what you moved into "roughcut" just by looking at the video tracks... video 2 is used already, video 1 is not used yet...
Rod

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