Yeah, there's really no way to get around scrubbing through footage to find what you want and need. Being able to combine that with editing probably makes it less painful -- and means you make fewer clips you don't use, I imagine.

Ha ha, I like the image of a vidder jealously guarding all her unneeded clips. "I might use those some day!!" I totally get that. :D

ETA (again): so, you use Vegas. What kind of files can you import? VOBs? MKVs? Do you use AviSynth? Do you run into stability issues with certain codecs or filetypes?