FCP captured clips look shorter

Some clips captured with Log and Capture, when opened from the browser, show only the first frames of the shot (as if they were shorter than their real length). The sizes of the clips in the finder appear correct, and the clips can be wieved in their full length using QT Player.
I finally found a manual workaround: adding the ".mov" extension at the end of those files fixes the problem.
Any suggestion?
Thanks

Sorry if I was stating the obvious.
No worries. It's hard to tell the experience of others.
Quicktime Player always, in my experience, plays back
video footage at a lower quality than FCP.
Right, but the clip looks the same in FCP as it does QT stand alone.
Not sure about FCP and Cinema Tools though. Since all
the apps use the same Quicktime codecs you would
think they would display at the same quality.
You would think. That's why i'm at a loss to see why there's so much difference.
I've never had an issue with FCP, I'm assuming you've
rendered everything before comparing quality?
There is nothing to render. The clip is raw out of the camera. From camera to Hard Drive. That's it. I opened it in the finder w/ QT and then in FCP. It looks identical in both. But when opened in CInemaTools, it looks much better. Blacks fuller. The clip looks noisier and more washed out in both FCP and QT than in CinemaTools.
Also, nothing was done to the clip in any program. It's raw from camera capture.
Also just noticed you didn't say your footage was HD
(you were talking about your hard disk) and so my
comment aboout a HD TV was rubbish - an SD monitor or
TV would suffice.
Right. I took it that way.

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