Pulling out Highlights Clips

I'm recording HDV sports videos. I start and stop between each play, which, on capture, creates one clip per play.
After a game, I capture the tape, create a basic game video with minor editing, chapter marks, and title.
I want to then go through each game, find clips for a highlight reel. Right now I'm using the Log Note field in the Browser to note the players name and type of play--is that the best method (I was simply renaming clips in i-Movie, which had a few advantages)
Given each game takes 30-40GB of disk space, I'd like to segregate the highlight clips with the media files so I can delete the rest of the media to free up space.
What are the best ways of doing this?
Thanks
iMAC4,1 2GHz Intel Core Duo, 1.5 GB RAM Mac OS X (10.4.9) FCE 3.5.1; Canon XH-A1

FCE is a non-destructive editor, meaning that no matter what you do in editing, it does not physically change the source media files (clips). No amount of editing, cutting, marking, dv start/stop detecting, making subclips, effects, transitions, etc. will physically change your source media files. Therefore even your 'highlights' sequence won't physically split any of your source media files.
In order to keep only the highlights material (just portions of the clips you Captured from your camera) you will have to assemble your highlights sequence and export it as a self-contained QuickTime movie (no QT Compression). Once you have the self-contained QT movie you can delete all of the source clips. From that point on, you will use your self-contained QT movie for distribution as well as future re-editing.
If you plan to re-edit the highlights movie in the future, keep in mind that the movie itself will be your source media.
If you do delete the original source media files (what you captured from your camera), I'd suggest keeping the FCE project file just in case you need to recapture the material from tape sometime in the future.

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