Video capture creates hundreds of 2 second clips?

If this behavior by-design? Or perhaps iMovie HD has a problem with my camcorder's date-time-stamping? I have an 8mm Sony D8 model DCR-TRV730.
The behavior I expected to see was that a clip would be created every time it detected a start/stop based on the date time stamps embedded on the video tape.
Thanks in advance,
-Ed

I have a DCR-TRV730 which iMovie 3 and iMovie 7 cannot see output from when it is playing a Hi8 tape. It works fine importing from digital tapes but iMovie 3 says the camera is not attached. iMovie 7 sees the camera, controls the camera but does not show any video. The DV output on the camera works fine as it sends a signal to my Phillips DVDR3475 DVD recorder.
Once upon a time, my G3 had no trouble importing video from the same camera from Hi8 tapes.
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