To clip or not to clip?

OK, I'm new to FCE and I just need a recommendation on technique. I know that I should be reading the book, but honestly I have two kids, one 4 years and the other 9 months, and by the time I find time to read the book they'll be in middle school. Since what I'm trying to do is edit together home video of them for my family and burn it onto DVD, I'd like to get it finished before that.
I'm using Standard Definition DV tape and have captured 3 reels that I now want to edit. The scenes on the DVD will be arranged chronologically, the same as they are on the tape, but broken into individual chapters, one per event on the tape. There will be transitions between the chapters, but nothing terribly fancy.
I have figured out how to use the razor blade on the timeline to cut apart sections of the captured video, I can make them independent clips and rename them. This is what I'm used to from iMovie which I used before, but I don't know if it's the best/right/professional way to work in FCE.
So, the question: Should I separate the captured video into sub-clips as described, or leave it intact and use in and out points and key frames to define the chapters and scenes?
Thanks in advance.
-John

Even better, if you are wanting to have FCE break the clips at the start/stop points of the tape you can do it this way:
http://fcpbook.com/Video5.html
• Then, once you have created subclips of the different clips on your camera, I'd recommend using in and out points in the viewer on the subclips created in DV Start/Stop Detect (see above link) to get a rough-cut that you can bring into your timeline.
• You can then place the clips in the timeline in the correct order.
• I would then use the ripple tool for even more precise editing (for example, you can use that tool to select the end point of the clip, then type -15 and enter, and it ripples the timeline back 15 frames, cutting off 15 from that clip)
The idea of this is to start out large by cutting into larger clips, then refine into smaller clips as you go.
If you are just wanting to create chapters that you would be able to access through the scene selections on your DVD, you add a normal marker to each part of the timeline you would like one by clicking "M," then click "M" again to open up the marker box. Then click the button to make it a chapter marker in that box.
If you then export as a regular Quicktime Movie, iDVD will create one long video file to play as well as a scene selection menu from which you can start from any of the markers you made.
Is this what you meant?

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