FCP 5 Media Manager Nubie

Just ventured into Media Manager for the first time....all of my video was captured as one clip (about 20 min's) at an offline resolution.....now that I made the sequence "offline", Discreet clips (the shots used) have not been created. I've tried subclips and it still wants to dig the whole tape.....does it remember the edit decisions? Is this because I captured as one clip initially?
Ironically I did recapture the entire tape again, then got an error message stating that there were TC breaks throughout....therefore nothing was captured. There were not any TC breaks the first time.
Is this my foray into Media Mgmt ****?
I kind of need to redig this stuff....seems really easy....yet I can't do it?
Any help out there?
Confused.

There's a bug in Media Manager in version FCP 5 which prevents you from media managing sequences where the media is already offline (deleted) ... this worked okay in FCP 4.5 and has apparently also been fixed in FCP 5.1
try creating an EDL of your sequence, then open a new project and import that EDL. then highlight the sequence and batch capture ... should capture only the sequence media you need
good luck
Andy

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