New Clips at Every Scene Break

whenever i upload video from my DV video camera, the whole video comes out in one clip. i set the preference to make it make new clips at each scene break but it still doesnt work. i was wondering if maybe i need to update imovie by getting ilife or something.
thank you

So it would seem no one has a real solid answer as to why this happens? Not trying to be argumentative, but I meet all of your aforementioned 'requirements' for scene clipping and it still doesn't work for me. BACKGROUND: The first experience(s) I had with iMHD6 was with my friend's Sony camcorder (it's gone now so model no. unknown), and I made movies/DVD's, from their DV camera, for them. Yada yada...my point being is that I clicked 'Import' in iMovie and the scenes were all automatically clipped on their Sony. Fast-forward a few months later (no pun intended) and they replaced their Sony with a Canon ZR830 (DV tape-based camcorder). Now, both the Sony & Canon cameras are mid-range and nothing fancy. The Canon camera (the date/time and time zone were all set correctly) imports all 56 minutes of the tape in one chunk; no scene splitting! This stinks for me cuz I have to go through and manually cut the segments up. So my Q is...is there anything else I can check in the camera to see if this can be remedied? Can you guys confirm that scene-splitting is simply just time/date based i.e. there is a gap greater than 30 seconds between two frames? Because that doesn't seem to be the case here when the Canon camera's time/date are set properly. Is it possible that this camera is NOT time-stamping the video? I'm thinking this might be my problem. Thoughts?
PS. I hope this makes sense...I've been working all day and my brain is dead, blah...trying to drink coffee to wake up.

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