Batch Capture is saying total media time of 3 hours 27 mins...

... for a 23 minute show.
I have collapsed the multi clips, gone to media manager, deselected include non active angles, choose to delete unused media with handles of 1 sec. Why is it still saying it needs 3 hours 27 mins? Please if anyone can help I'd be grateful.
This software is useless and I am sorry for sounding off, its not the place to do it but seriously I am in a broadcast environment and I am beginning to look stupid in front of my client.

The reason for that could be that you select everything in timeline and browser , try to select just the original clip before you made it a multi clip. Final cut some how calculates everything as soon a clip is a multi-clip or on the timeline the batch capture select the entire video.
I had the same problem, but then i just selected my original clip and it worked out fine. I only had some problems with the multi clip but apparently 6.0.3 fixed that ( not sure)

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