Start New clip a scene break

I am importing HD footage into IMovie HD I have selected start new clip at scene break but all it does is import as one huge file and does not start a new clip at each scene break. I know the importing has to be done at 1/4 speed because of my older mac G4. Is this the reason it does not start a new clip at scene break? Is there another setting besides in preferences I need to adjust?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

Hi
And there is no sceen-detection program in the Mac environment at all to my knowledge.
Rumour says that there is such a program on the PC-platform. But how this is done
and how many clips that a panoramic (panning) recording would split up into is
a bit of my curiosity.
No Not in iMovie
Not in FinalCut Express
Not in FinalCut Pro 6 (Studio 2 bundle)
Yours Bengt W

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