Import splitting into hundreds of .3 second clips!

We have a Panasonic PV-D400D, and iMovie's last few versions have erroneously imported all video as tons of little .3 second clips. The way we got around this was to import as one single clip, not using the auto clip thing in iMovie. However, it looks like there is now no preference for that.
Am I out of luck? Is there a setting I'm missing? Anyone with such a camera know if there's a setting on the camera itself that is causing this problem?
Thanks!

Hi
Can't find Your Camera on the Web. So my thoughts:
To get this I would:
• record in LP-mode (90 min on a 60min tape)
• play it back on another Camera
• to a Mac with an exteral hard disk NOT Formatted as Mac OS Extended.
All this would give a non working situation. Changing them to
• SP-mode (60min)
• use same Camera as did the shooting
• import to internal hard disk (formatted Mac OS Extended) with 25Gb free space
would make it as easy as possibly.
Yours Bengt W

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