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Here is a video that covers several of the things that David talked about. Yours however with the person running will require much more work.

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The first thing you need to understand is that music purchased from iTunes has DRM copy protection imbedded into the file.

That is why you cannot use it in final cut.

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https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/basic_pleasantville_look.html

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No offense but this topic has been beaten to death on this forum.

Please do a search.

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its because of the GOP structure that HDV uses

If you plan on working in the format I sujest you learn about the format

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[AmyStar] “both the camera and the drive are plugged into the monitor.”

Then they are running of of the same firewire bus.

[AmyStar] “i have a mac os “

This has nothing to do with the number of firewire busses that a computer has.

[AmyStar] “i was thinking if i had a firewire hub it might be easier.”

All that will do is increase the number of devices that you can connect to the one firewire bus.

[AmyStar] “does it make a difference that i was capturing and using the open project file off of the drive? what i mean is should i use the project file off of the desktop instead? “

I always prefer to keep the project on a different drive then the media drive.

Think of a firewire bus as a pipe, you can only send so much through a pipe at one time. when capturing from tape to a FW drive that is connected to the same bus, the camera sends a data stream from the camera to the computer, the computer then in turn sends a data stream to the hard drive. The data douse not go directly from the camera to the drive. While one data stream a lone will not enough to be more then the pipe can handle. At times the two streams (1 camera to computer, 2 computer to hard drive) it has the possibility of being to much for the one firewire bus to handle. Usually it is ok, but not always. I would try capturing to a different drive not on same firewire bus. Ether add a a firewire card to the computer thus adding a second firewire bus, or try capturing to a drive connected to a different connection, like eSATA, don’t use USB it is not cut out for video, you can also try capturing to a second internal drive, don’t capture to the system drive, it has enough to do running the OS and applications.

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You said it is a skit so I am assuming that it is short. If it is short it may be easier to just post the video online.

Plus you don’t have to pay shipping.

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If the hard drive and the camera are conected to the same firewire bus that could be the issue. I have had droped frames before when capturing or laying back to tape when both camera and drive are attached to the same firewire bus. It is best to have the camera and drive on seperate busses it is even better if the drive is conected via sata ot esata which is 2x faster then FW800 and 4x faster then FW400.

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how is it conected to the computer

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What type of hard drives are you using?