I have a sony HDR-HC3 HD camcorder using Kdenlive 0.7.5.

I've a large amount of HD tape to transfer to the computer. I want to save the video for editing at a later date so I'd like to keep it in the format which it was captured in. When capturing, Kdenlive splits the video into many smaller clips; How do I capture to one file only?
Rendering to m2t 2-pass seems to be the best quality for HD, is that right? Is it true this is a mpeg file so changing the file extension to .mpg will allow my PS3 to play this at best resolution?

Thanks for you time!

m2t is a MPEG-2 Transport Stream file. .mpg is usually for MPEG-2 Program Stream or MPEG-2 Systems stream. I do not know what the PS3 works with.
I think you can turn off autosplit in the Kdenlive settings, Firewire capture. You do not need to render to save the captured files. The captured files can be saved/archived/moved and added to a project at a later time.

I have turned off clipping from the menu but it still cuts the clips into 1Gb sections, is this correct?

Thanks for the reply!

Ah, yes, split to new file at 1GB is a dvgrab default. Please submit kdenlive bug report to request that be turned off.