Importing DV footage without breaks

Hi, I'm trying to import an old finished movie that's on a DV tape into FCPX 10.0.6 but during import it keeps creating a new clip for every cut.
Is there a way to stop this and have it import as just one single clip?
Thanks!

For this case it was a finished fully edited movie we made almost ten years ago and my only master copy was one that I had recorded back onto Mini DV tape at the time. I had no master QuickTime saved from that time so when I wanted to import the film as it is I wanted it to be just one long clip as no editing was necessary. The import cutting into separate clips on every single cut of the film made it just awkward.
If I was importing footage to edit with then yeah I would of course want that to be separated on import.

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