Capturing 720p 24fps as one clip

I've got about 45 minutes of tape for a client, shot 720p at 24fps, on miniDV tape.
Is there a way to capture it as one long clip, without breaking it up into individual clips on the time code start/stop (yes, I I have that disabled in the Capture Settings)?
I've learned to compensate for losing the first few seconds when individual clips are created, but it's still be nice to just give them the "raw tape" if possible.
Thanks.

You are asking for trouble in two places -
1. Your sync between audio/video can drift
2. DV tape is never recorded as 24fps - it is always 29.97. If you want to remove the pulldown that is added at the time of recording, you'll want individual clips with a unified pulldown cadence to work with. Starting/stopping and discontinuous TC will wreck this process.
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