Capture and reconnect media?

I captured HDV media as SD for an edited video for the web. Now I need to recapture the media as HDV and would like to reconnect it to the edited timeline. I don't want to have to re-edit the web video from scratch, I would like to just import the needed media and reconnect it.
There are six hours of tape. The final product is a series of 14 videos between 1 & 5 minutes long.
Is there a way to only capture the scenes I need? And How do I go about reconnecting the media in the edited timeline.
Please help.

This means that when you initially captured the tape, you started capturing right away...you didn't get enough "pre-roll." A tape needds 3-5 seconds to get up to speed, and when you batch capture, the camera tries to go 5 seconds BEFORE the clip TC you want to capture. If you didn't give enough pre-roll, then it won't work. For that clip you might have to capture manually and then eye match it.
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