Hi8 Capture Box Import

I have recently bought a canopus advc 55 to attempt to import all my old hi8 footage into fcpx. Its connected to the computer via fw and the box in turn via RCA.
When I attempt to create a camera archive, every so often it will just record the first 3:33 ish minutes of the tape, continue to show me on screen the rest of the footage but not transfer it. Also sometimes when it gets to the end of the tape FCP would just crash and the archive would not be recognisable as there is no metadata.plist file within.
After waiting 90 minutes for it to record and discovering it hasn't is not only an annoyance but a collosal time waste. For the second issue, I have found copying any old archive plist file seems to placate fcp as the video footage is within the cotainer but FCP just does not recognise it.
Has anyone else had this issue with the advc 55 or any analogue digital converter? I would have thought maybe the converter box is faulty, but it does display a video feed during import without any horrible stuttering or any other interferance; however this has left me rather confused and frustrated. Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.
I'd like to add that I have succesfully imported my entire mini DV collection over iLink/fw without issues in the most part, although often I get messages when importing from the camera archive that clips are still referrencing media on the tape, are these dropped frames?

Problem is, we're not sure if FCP X is really set up to capture non-timecode tape. It may be FCP X is not reading any FW based timecode coming in (which Hi-8 doesn't have). I'd recommend using Quicktime Player to import it. FCP installs QT Pro, so you should have a "New Movie Recording" option in that File menu. Also be sure to set it to record from your Canopus in the QTPlayer preferences first, too. Then import the resulting QT files into FCP X.
I'm confused as to if you are Importing your footage, or creating an Archive? Don't worry about an Archive until you've captured all the footage first.
Again, no one I've spoken with has any idea how FCP X handles dropped frames when capturing from tape, so again, I recommend folks use QTPro (Player) to capture.
As wonderful as FCP X is right now, it is a version 1.0 of a new application, and is full of annoying bugs.

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