Problem Capturing Cannon XL2 tape to Hard Drive

I am using a Cannon XL2 Camera with a firewire connection to my MacBookPro.
Normally I record directly to the HDD and use the cassette tape as a backup.
This has been working fine up unitl the .7 version.
I needed to use the backup tape version so I attempted to download it to the computer.
It did connect, and I had full control of the VCR functions of the camera. But FCPX
Captured the footage in very short clips ranging from 3 frames to 20 frame duration.
When I watch the tape in in viewer without anttempting to capture it, it plays fine.
But somewhere in the capture process it is getting messed up.
Can anyone point me in the direction to finding a solution. I don't even know where to start.
Thank you
jac

There are lots of similar reports. I've encountered this at times with earlier versions, but not recently. For any tapes that I couldn't capture I ended up by capturing in legacy FCP. Many people have successfully used iMovie for capture, and edited in FCPX.
Good luck.
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