Using iMovie to Capture Video

Hi all,
With a lot of my projects, I log and capture using Final Cut. However, when I have footage I don't want to log (I have about 11 minutes of video of firefighters dealing with a blaze across the street), and I just want to capture it and edit it down a bit, I have been using iMovie. I like how iMovie creates a new media file upon "scene break" which I don't know if Final Cut does. Once my footage is captured to disk, I just drag the media files into my Final Cut project.
The problem is that these media files, for whatever reason, play back very choppy in the viewer. When I bring them into the timeline however, they play smoothly and I can jog or shuttle or whatever easily. I'm thinking it might have somehting to do with the fact that the audio needs to be rendered on the fly or something...
Has anyone experienced this? Or can you suggest a way I can capture easily with Final Cut (in the way that iMovie captures my footage)?
Thanks,
Cyrus

As you've discovered it can be done but after all the effort to move between the 2 and then render, you could have captured the entire 11 minute clip using capture now (self flagellates as chastisement for recommending using capture now) or better still simply setting an in point at the start and end point at the end and making the proverbial cup of tea/pouring a Guinness (Zeb) or an Islay single malt (X) etc etc while waiting for the capture to complete, then scrubbed thro' the entire clip for the best bits (err.. AKA editing) and this must be the longest single sentence seen around these parts in a long time so I'll shut up, you get the point.
By the way, I don't have a solution to the create a separate clip on scene break problem unless you move to HDV.

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