Capturing Footage Problem

Hi
I am trying to capture 30 minutes of footage from a Sony HC9E to FCP7 I am using an ilink cable and I have changed the settings to AIC. It does work and it does capture the footage but instead of capturing in one bin, once it has finished capturing all the footage there are about 25 bins of footage and some of them have footage only lasting 1 second which are of no use to me.
These are not start stop points because the 30minutes of footage I shot was continous.
Any idea's what might be happening?
Thanks
Michelle

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