Imported movies (clips) from camcorder only half length

I I import my clips say 2 min that I see from my camcorder using the large format and they look like they are downloading properly and image stabilize but when they appear in my events window they are exactly half the length does anyone know how to fix this. It does not matter how long the clips are they are always cut in half.

I tried this checkbox option in the Log & Capture window, I checked the box and selected “Limit Capture Now To: 20 Minutes”. Unfortunately, it did not work. First the capture did not stop at 20 minute, I had to press ‘Escape’ key to stop it, and second the maximum I could capture was about 1 minute and 35 seconds. In other capture attempts I noticed that when I press the ‘Escape’ key to stop capture, only the last few seconds are captured.
Are there other things that I should do to solving this problem? Could this be a memory problem? I have 1 GB SDRAM. However, when I am capturing video through an Analog/Digital converter device, I don’t have this problem. This problem happens only when I am capturing directly from DV Camcorder
Apple G5 - Dual Processor, 2.3 GHz   Mac OS X (10.4.6)   1 GB DDR SDRAM
Apple G5 - Dual Processor, 2.3 GHz   Mac OS X (10.4.6)   1 GB DDR SDRAM

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