Faster video speed on imported clips

I've been trying to import video from my Sony Digital8 camera to my MacMini. I've had a couple of problems...
With "start a new clip with each scene break" checked, it breaks up my video into clips that are only .16 of a second long. When I don't have it checked, it imports longer sections like it should, but when I run them on my computer, the playback speed is too fast.
Anyone know what is causing this or how to fix it?

Hi
Very hard to figure out what's going wrong.
What kind of material do You start with ?
• Hi8 movie tape
• Video8 movie tape
• miniDV SP movie tape
• miniDV LP movie tape
• Camera docked as A/D box to VCR
Is there any setting on Your Digital8 Camera that needs to be set ?
Did You connect to Mac via FireWire ?
Have You tried to
• Delete iMoivie pref file
• Repair Permissions
• Free space on internal boot hard disk > 25Gb
Yours realy trying to figure it out Bengt W

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