Create camera archive produced blank archive

Hi,
I tried to create a camera archive from a Sony Digital 8 camcorder playing back a Video 8 tape. The video showed on the screen and it said it was capturing. After 30mins when the footage was finished, I clicked stop. It asked me if I want to keep what has been capture so far so I clicked to keep it.
The archive created could not be opened in FCPX and looking in the finder the archive is 0KB in size. Has anyone else experienced this?

The footage is analog, but the camera outputs a digital signal and I am connecting it with firewire to the mac (I'm lucky to have one of the few Digital 8 camcorders that do that - bought it on ebay just for that purpose!).
The video displays on the screen in FCPX, but when it got to the end, the archive was 0KB in size.
Capture works fine in iMovie.

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