Capture Now - stops at 31min but system is set to stop at 63min! (?)

Folks, this one is puzzling me so I would appreciate any suggestions.
I have "Capture Now" limited to 63 minutes, however, FCP stops capturing around 31mins with the message that it has reached the limit set by the user! I tried with two different tapes with the same result. Have quit FCP and restarted with the same results.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Ismenio

Hi Jerry (and anyone interested in this). I've been trying to troubleshoot this for days now and came to a conclusion: I think the problem is with a couple of tapes!
I checked the capture now settings, as Jerry mentioned, both for time and size and everything looked fine. Size wasn't even checked but I checked it and increased the size anyway, on and off, but getting the same results: the capture always stops at around 31 minutes.
Then I started capturing other tapes (same brand, recorded in the same camera (Canon HV30)) and no problems there! Oh well! I just manually "glued" the two clips for the same tape that I had to manually adjust so as to capture the rest of the 30min of footage (sorry, don't know the right term!)
Weird isn't it? It's not like at the 31min mark a scene changes or there was a pause in the filming
Thanks again for your help Jerry.
Best regards,
Ismenio

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