Whole tape captured but only 2/3's in final cut

I have captured a two DV tape which are about 1 hour and 2min the whole tapes captured without any problem but in the browser one tape (captured file) only shows the the captured footage is only 42 min the rest does not show up. When i play the clip in quicktime the whole 1 hour and 2min are there. The other tape which has the same length is fine.
I did quiet a lot tapes like that never had a problem, i did upgrade to 6.02 an run Leopard 15.1
I do not have any limitations set in the preference files

Make sure there's no in and out points set in the offending clip before you determine it's length. Or type on x with the clip in the viewer and see what the in to out is.
Jerry

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Television System
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