Help - Capture is creating separate clips **

I'm using FCP 5 with a Sony HC-1
and it seems to find timecode breaks over all my tapes and even when i set the preference unchecked for "create new clip on timecode break"
it seems to do it anyway.
anyone see this before?
thanks ~
imac g5 Mac OS X (10.4.2) Sony HDV -HC1 firewire camera

Patrick,
Thanks for the reply ~
although i'm not sure i get it entirely. what are you referring to "stream" ? timecode?
the material breaks seemingly arbitrarily, not when the camera stopped, etc.
and it does this on various tapes. i have tried "capture now" and it still does it. timecode starts 2 frames later on the next clip, which i find strange. If this happens all the time for everyone using HDV footage, it seems like an incredibly f'ed up glitch in the program.
Is there a work around if you've got a bunch of clips - do you know of a way to "merge" them somehow?
my last thought is that could my settings be wrong for some reason? would it even allow me to control the deck and capture if they were wrong? i'm thinking about the difference between 30fps and 29.97 - and wondering if that's somehow related here.
anyway, thanks again for the thoughts ~
Ben

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