IMovie splitting import into many 0.1s clips!

Hi. I've never experienced this problem on other iMovie versions.
Basically, importing (manual) from my camcorder via firewire, my clip is split into many little clips that are 0.1s long (or longer). I can't for the life of me find where to disable this feature. Importing in automatic mode has the same results.
How can I import my clip AS 1 CLIP????
Thanks in advance for your help.

"..I only have the latest version of iMovie.." ..but because you do have iMovie '08 you're entitled to download the previous version (..iMovie HD 6..) from here:
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/imovieHD6.html
You wrote "..I have uploaded from my Sony Digital 8 Handycam via the DV to USB connection.." ..I'm not sure exactly how you did that, as a DV camcorder (..if you've passed the video through a DV camcorder..) connects via FireWire, not by USB. But if you've passed it into an AVCHD camcorder - which does connect via USB - then maybe it's something to do with the AVCHD-to-AIC conversion, which may read a large change in the characteristics of the video as a new clip.
(..AVCHD is the recording method used in many current camcorders, mainly those which record to a tiny hard disc, or to chips in the camcorder. AVCHD is a compressed format which gets expanded into Apple's Intermediate Codec (AIC) format when the AVCHD material is imported into iMovie '08 (it can't be imported into previous iMovie versions, except by using an external program like Voltaic). I'll have a look to see if this expansion of 'jumpy' AVCHD might possibly produce new clips at every brightness jump..)
"..burn my footage from my camera to a dvd via my DVD recorder and then import the footage to iMovie.." ..that's a very "lossy" method; video quality gets 'knocked down' when the material is converted ..yet again!.. this time into MPEG-2 format for burning onto a DVD, and then it's converted yet again! and changed back from MPEG-2 into DV, or AIC or a QuickTime file when the material's imported back again from the DVD! (..for which you'd need an external program like MPEG Streamclip or Handbrake).
So out to DVD and back in again to iMovie is normally going to reduce the quality considerably ..though maybe that won't be quite so noticeable if it originated on 8mm tape. But if it was really on Digital-8 originally, then the simplest way to import is just to connect the D-8's camera via FireWire to iMovie! ..Don't touch any USB connection, just use FireWire - and you shouldn't get any "new clip at brightness change" problems.

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