Importing HDV

While importing HDV into my Final Cut pro 5 system I am doing a "Capture Now" of the tapes. Unlike DV it will seperate every time the camera cuts into a new clip(like capturing in iMovie). I would like to know if there is anyway I can make it not do this. I just want to capture a whole tape and have it be one clip file instead of 85+ clip files.

I have been importing HDV into FCP for the last year and I believe this is an unfortunate side effect of importing HDV into FCP.
I am not sure whether the problem lies in the HDV format or FCP, either way FCP is detecting a timecode break when the recording started/stopped. Unfortunately I do not believe there is any way around this.
If you haven't done it already, set "On timecode break:" under the "General" tab in "User Preferences" to: "Make New Clip". This makes import much more tolerable.

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