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NEVER use your main system drive to edit video from it is already working hard running the operating system and any application that are running making it access video at the same time is just askiing for poor performance and lots of droped frames in video playback while editing.

It is preferible if you have a second internal drive to edit from the data transfer speeds are faster, but a firewire drive should work fine. DV and HDV video take up rufly the same amount of drive stace and same data transfer speed so ther should be no reason that they wont work well from a firewire drive.

If FCP crashes every 30 min I dont think it is a problem with the drive most likley FCP Trash your preffs.

You said that you unchecked the auto save if FCP keeps crashing you will want that turned on so you can go back to the most recent auto save after a FCP problem.

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you need to re install the applications

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try doing an archive and install on the OS

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try trashing your FCP preferences

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the crossgrade form for the academic version is the exact same form as the non academic version and noware on the form douse it say that youo will get the academic version in return. I have also heard from others that they did not get the accademic version when they did the crossgrade from there origonal academic version.

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not from the information on the order form

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You can do the crossgrade on the academic version and get 5.1

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More info is needed

What type of glitches

a fiew thots on posible solutions

1 – Is the video on your system hard drive (you could be gitting droped frames)
2 – Have yoou tried a different tape (you said you tried recording over)

You said that the only reason you were puting it on tape was to submit it to something.
It is a good idea to put everything you edid back to tape giving you a master on tape that can be accessed later.

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there was a good artical in the last issue of the creative cow magazine all about HDV check it out.

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fore someone to compleetly trouble shoot your computer through a forum would take weeks mabie months. I sujested 3rd party ram because that is where I always start my trouble shooting.

Please take your computer to a Apple Store there techs are trained and certifid in figuring out and fixing these sort of problems.

Kernil panics can be caused by a verity of differint things and to trouble shoot it threough a forum is just impracticle