Loading Hi8 video to iMovie

Using the Pogue iMovie HD manual I am trying to load a 60min Hi8 tape. I am using my DV Sony Camcorder to digitize the footage and load through a firewire connection into iMovie. This process got me a the entire tape - as a single clip.
I then copied the Hi8 tape to a time-coded DV tape. Tried to download the DV tape into iMovie - got another great big clip!
I'm trying to avoid having to break out about 200-250 clips from this one big one.
Is there any way to put this footage into iMovie so that it will automatically detect the scenes?

Hi Eastwood
In iMovie under the menu "Preferences" You can select:
- import as individual clips
This will work if there is a code that iMovie can detect and cut up Your movie
from but when using an analog to digital box like Canopus + importing from
eg. a VHS VCR then there is no such information.
Result iMovie has no information that tells it where one sceen ends and next starts.
My guess is that a Hi-8 tape in a digital 8 camera doesn't have this info to
send to iMovie.
Result: If changing the setting in pref give no result - You have to go manual.
Yours Bengt W

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