Problem Synchronizing Multiple Video Clips to One Audio Clip

So i recently shot some video for a cool project I have coming up however I am having issues with Synchronizing the Audio and Videot together in Final Cut Pro X. I have used Final Cut Pro X since Day 1 that it came out and I thought I had a pretty good grasp on how Synchronizing Clips and MultiCam worked. I record my audio separately so in the past I would start recording on the TasCam Recorder (Wireless lav set up) I have, start recording on the DSLR and end up with both a video and audio clip. I would take these into Final Cut Pro and highlight both and use the "Synchronize Clips" command to pair them both into a single clip and then turn off the natural audio from the DSLR and begin my cuts. I thought I had done this with multiple clips before without issue but I seem to have a problem now.
Yesterday I shot 50 interviews. I pressed record on the Audio Recorder in the beggining and let it run for the full 2 hours, giving me one long audio file. Instead of wasting video space on my CF Card, I started and stopped recording for each of the 50 interviewees. My goal and what I thought would work was to highlight all 50 video clips and the 1 audio clip and say Synchronize Clips. This did not work. Upon looking at the Synchronize Clips in depth, i noticed that it synched all of my video stacked in the beggining in the first couple minutes. It didn't sync all of my clips, it merely just put them in the same timeline all up front.
I then tried to highlight all and do the same thing with MultiCam, however thought it matched a few more clips, it still had an issue of not synching the way I was hoping for.
I was wondering if anyone has had this issue in the past and what they might have done to fix it. Does FCPX have a limit on the number of clips it can Synchronize? Does anyone have any ideas for workflow for synchronizing all of these clips? In the future upcoming shoots should i resort back to starting and stopping audio recording the same way I start and stop video recording and then pairing individual interviews later?

So i just read this in the support for FCPX
Final Cut Pro analyzes the clips for sync points such as markers you’ve added, timecode, file creation date, and audio content. If no sync points can be found, the clips are synced at their respective starting points.
This is what I am aiming for , however not what I am getting. The piece about how the clips sync via timecode, markers, and creation date/time intrigue me though. There is no timecode cause my external audio is just a wav file, but maybe I can get it to sync better via markers? Has anyone else had this issue? Maybe my audio file being close to 2 hours is too long?

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