Capturing VHS with converter?

When using my Canopus converter (FireWire) to capture to FCPX the clips are auto split into like 30 second (not sure how long) clips which does not make sense for archiving these old projects. Is there a setting to make it continuous?

Any advantage to QTP7 over using iMovie 11 which is my current workaround---IM captures as one long clip whic is my preference.
So I guess I assumed my converter box (Canopus C110) created some kind of time code that FCPX would understand---
Thanks so much for your time!
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