Unused Clips

This may be a crazy question but I wanted to know is there is anyway I can select on of the unused portion of the video in a project? I want to give the client all of the video that was not used in the final product.

Using the orange bar method as already mentioned you can do some more refining.
Select Unused clips:
You should see all the bits unused, this covers all of a clip not used and bits of clips not used.
In the shot below, the clip has been partially used, shown by the orange bar.
The other two highlighted regions are unused, they will appear as two clips when unused is selected.
If you move the playhead a little past the end of your existing Project you will have a buffer to easily find the unused clips.
Select all the unused clips and do an Insert edit to your existing Timeline.
Go to the Timeline and select the newly edited unused clips only and export as a Master File.
Once the export is done you can delete the unused clips from the Timeline if you like.
Al

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