Capturing HD recorded from DV tape

I've been given a DV tape that has been filmed using a Sony Z1E camera in HD. When trying to capture the footage in FCPHD 5.1.2, there's no setting that will allow it.
Any suggestions?

to capture at the native resolution recorded on the tape, you need to use a compatible HDV deck or camera to play it back ... make sure you set the FCP > Easy Setup to the same as the source format as recorded
alternatively, if you don't want to work in HD, depending on the playback device, you may be able to set it to downconvert the source to plain vanilla DV, in which case you should set the FCP > Easy Setup to the approriate DV format and capture as such.

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More details(read only if you want more information)
I have a several miniDV tapes containing HD video created on a Sony Sony HDR-HC5 and Sony HDR-HC7. Unfortunately, both these camera were stolen, and I have since moved to a camera that uses flash memory, not tape. However, I need to get the video footage off these tapes, so I bought a used Sony HDR-HC3, it plays the HD miniDV tapes just fine and iMovie reads the video from this camera just fine, but Final Cut Express does not.
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Thanks for the answer. It makes me sad. I thought using Final Cut Express would be an upgrade to a more robust editing system from iMovie, yet iMovie does a superior job of logging and capturing video from HDV video on miniDV tape in comparison to FCE. Not only does iMovie capture each clip on the tape into it's own video file automatically, it also includes timestamp information in the filename indicating when the clip was originally recorded, which appears to be something that is missing from Final Cut Express. Now I realize that HDV miniDV cameras had a relatively short life span in the consumer marketplace and have since all been replaced by flash and hard drive based AVCHD cameras, but from circa 2004 to 2007, miniDV HDV camcorders were very popular and I am sure there are lots of consumers that must be super frustrated by Final Cut Express limited ability to log and capture clips properly from these cameras.
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