Splitting Clips

I just can't figure this out. I have a project that currently is made up of 6-8 clips. One clip is rather long, 10 minutes or so. I want to shorten this clip by taking out some dead space in a few sections. Just chopping seconds out of the clip. I can trim to my hearts desire and that's cool. But the Split Clip never becomes an option in my edit menu and I cannot find anything anywhere on how to do this.
Imagine a long clip and you don't want to trim in/out. You simply want to take a razor blade (ala FCP) and make a couple cuts, then delete the offending clip and throw in a transition. Should be easy enough but I'm pulling my hair out????

I have a similar situation. This is designed for new footage from digital sources that has a nice start/stop point to break up clips every time you start and stop the camera.
I am converting about 100 hours of 5-10 year old Hi 8mm analog footage that is in 1-2 hour chunks. The borrowed digital camcorder I am using as a bridge (my newer minDV camera does not have an analog input) breaks the footage into 30 minute clips.
On a newer camera, this footage would end up being 10-30 manageable clips. I can't figure out how to split the clips (actually events I guess) in the events library either. One of the 30 minute "clips" could cross 5 "events," so it would be very handy to have the events separated in my events library rather than only being able to do so in the project library.
Any Ideas?

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