Help me import as one clip instead of breaking up

Hello
I've tried to use my brothers Mac to capture footage from a super8 analogue tape camera. Imovie09 works fine in doing so with one problem - we cannot figure out how to make it capture the footage as one continuous raw file. Imovie09 immediately separates the footage into broken up clips.
I cannot find in the preferences an option to not allow the automatic scene breakup.
So, I want to capture a whole tapes worth, without its separation. I've only found worries about how to not let this happen in various posts on the internet.
Any help would be appreciated, please ask for further elaboration if willing to help but unsure of my exact problem yet.
Cheers,
Joh

Greetings Winston,
I only want to digitise an already edited film of my own, of which I placed the production back on to an analogue tape upon finishing (as a means to store it a few years ago). So basically I want to capture the tape whole without any automatically assumed scene breaks.
I did have that error you mentioned with one of the tapes. We tried to capture two - the first one broke up into 6 large chunks, the 2nd into hundreds of 1-4 second clips. How can I convince Imovie to leave them as one?
Cheers,
Joh

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