Capturing hour 1 of a tape

So I had some film transferred to D5 and DVCam. I tried to capture the DVCam to offline and I had some problems. I had 12 minutes and 30 seconds of footage on the DVCam (no FLEX file). So I set the capture tool to bring in hour 01:00:00:00-01:12:30:00. The first frame of film (hole punched A frame) is exactly at hour 1. However, the tape actually starts at 59:58:00:00 and has bars and tone etc.. up until hour 1. So when I try to batch capture, it doesn't work because FCP keep rewinding the tape, thinking hour 1 is wayyyyyy at the beginning of this tape and doesn't recognize that it is after hour 59. How Can I get this to work? Or can I??? I know I can use capture now but there has to be a way to log and capture starting at hour 1???

Ok, sorry for the confusion. The Telecine house did a PERFECT job. All timecode is AS IS SHOULD BE. Starts at 58 minutes, bars and tone, black, its all good. Yet, final cut still thinks hour 1 is further back instead of coming up very soon. I have tried starting at 01:00:10:00 just to let it rewind and hopefully find it. It still just keeps rewinding to the beginning, plays ten seconds, rewinds again, etc..... etc.... etc.....

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Shane's Stock Answer #20:
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