FCE file sizes are twice the size of Quicktime's - any advantage to FCE?

When I capture footage from my Canon HV40 MiniDV using FCE, the file sizes are almost twice the size as when I capture using Quicktime's Device Native setting. Is there any advantage to capturing with FCE, as the quality seems the same? Or is there a way to reduce the file size being captured in FCE?
I'd like to be able to capture in FCE because if there is a dropped frame in the recording, Quicktime stops recording, whereas FCE keeps going and starts a new file. But the larger file size in FCE puts me off.

There is no difference in the two files. They are both DV Stream (.dv).
If you look in the Movie Properties window you'll notice that both tracks (audio and video) have the same file size.
Obviously, this can't mean that the audio track is really as large as the video track in data size. It means that the only way QuickTime can "separate" the stream into two editable tracks is to duplicate them (but ignore the video playback of the audio track portion).
I don't use Final Cut but I would suspect it might make two files (audio and video) instead of a single file made by QuickTime Player Pro.
Confusing, isn't it?

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