IMovie 5 - new clips at each hour

Hello,
I often get final picture edits on tape, and these need to be converted to QT for a chase computer in an audio post workflow. I'm currently using iMovie HD (v5.02) for this through a Canopus ADVC-100 firewire box.
iMovie5 always starts a new clip at a few seconds past each hour of import - so a 2h30m program would have 3 clips. This is a problem because to make one long QT movie takes a long time to render and occupies double the disk space. I've heard there are third-party QT file-combiners, but other than being nervous they'll skip a frame they still take a while and require double the disk space because they generate a new file. For programs shorter than one hour I go to the project, Show Package Contents, and remove the DV file for use. This skips the slow render process.
At someone's helpful suggestion I've tried the freeware Vidi import app and it works as I need it to, but it's very basic (probably why it does well) without an elapsed time counter, something I'd like to have. iMovie does nicely but I need to figure out how to import one long file.
Is there any way to get iMovie to stop generating a new clip at each hour? Of course I uncheck the "new clip at scene breaks" although that wouldn't affect it because it's one long program, and it's time related not scene-related.
Does iMovie 6 do the same thing? If I upgrade will it import as one long file?
Thanks
Hugh
G4-17 Powerbook Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Hello,
Thanks both of you for the info, the iMovie limitation is what I wanted to know. I've tried Vidi, a freeware capture app, and it seems to do fine but I'm hoping to get a few more features. I'll also give BTVPro a try. I've tried recording directly in QTPro and it's crashed a couple of times so I'm concerned about introducing it into a real workflow. You may be right, maybe FCP is the next step but since I'm only interested in continuous import I'm trying other options first.
I'll also take a look at the cache solution you mentioned. It will occupy more disk space but may be fast enough.
Thanks again,
Hugh

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