HDV video is coming in as document files not movie files. What's up?

Upon capturing my HDV video footage to my scratch disk - using capture settings that have worked properly in the past, I'm getting not movie files in my capture folder... but DOCUMENT FILES.
I don't know what's going on. This is the second time this has happened. Can anyone shed light on this? Capture settings are HDV, 1440 x 1280, Apple ProRes 422 (standard). Sequence is set up as Apple Pro Res 422 (standard) as well. I'm using FCPS3.
I'll pop the tape in, hit log and capture, I get a box that I'll rename the clip in, hit capture and off I go. When the tape comes to the end, I hit escape, check out my clips and bam, document files. This is weird.

see this thread for answers and solutions:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2142286&tstart=150

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