Changing Media Files!

Dear All
Strange thing here, any ideas? After capture, my video files are changing from single video files to multiple video files.
Example: After capturing camera 01 footage, on the drive the cam01 footage becomes cam01-v, cam01-v-1, cam01-v-2 etc...I had to reconnect the video file earlier and FCP will not let me choose these files when trying to import them again.
Any ideas and thanks

I am guessing that your capture drive is formatted FAT 32, which is a PC format that has a 2GB file size limit. With that, it breaks up the video into 2GB chunks.
You need to format your drive MacOS Extended and then recapture for best results.
Shane

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How to find and remove duplicate items in your iTunes library - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2905
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/itinfo/dupin.php (commercial)
Posts by turingtest2 about different types of duplicates and techniques- https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3555601 and https://discussions.apple.com/message/16042406 (Note: The DeDuper script is for Windows)
http://www.hardcoded.net/dupeguru_me/

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applications folder, hence virtually worthless for most purposes. A
better question may be, how do you specify a folder on a different
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