How can I import from a camcorder without it breaking it down into clips?

I want to archive all my old camcorder tapes before the hardware breaks or becomes obsolete.  If I use iMovie10 it breaks the video down into lots of clips and doesn't even store them in the right sequence.   Is there any way to switch this off and just create a single file of the whole tape?   Google seems to show it used to be possible but on v10 there seem to be only two options under Preferences - speed adjustment and iCloud.  Failing that on iMovie is there a Mac equivalent to Scenalyzer out there at all?
Thanks

One thing that I have noticed is that Apples built-in camera is optimized for Face Time, so it sometimes captures at 30 frames per second, but if there is not a lot of motion in the frame, it might use 12 or 15 frames per second. So it has variable frame rates. This is great for FaceTime, but not so great if you are trying to keep the audio in sync.
The way to fix this is to use QuickTime Pro or MPEG Streamclip to save the movie out with identical specs except to specify 30 frames per second (or 25 in a PAL country).
I wonder if you are running into a similar problem in QTPlayer. If it is making a variable frame rate movie, you could fix it by dragging the movie into MPEG Streamclip and exporting as the same kind of movie, but with a fixed 30 fps frame rate. MPEG Streamclip is free and quite useful for stuff like this.
Just a thought.
Right now my QuickTime Player is hanging so I can't test to see if you could set the frame rate directly in QuickTime Player X.

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