Okay, here’s the deal. I am using an HP laptop with an external PC firewire card…I thought another program, or incompatible codec, was interfering with premiere and wouldn’t let it export to tape so I re-installed the Operating system, updated everything and installed only premiere pro and the same thing happened…I then installed premiere pro in my friends ACER desktop with onboard firewire and export to tape as well as monitoring through the camera worked fine. So, I suspect that our firewire cards are not fully compatible with premiere pro. If you installed a third party firewire card in your computer, that’s definitely the problem. Try updating the drivers for it, if you can’t, I recommend getting a card that’s compatible with premiere pro…check their site for a list…hope this helps…ALLAN ONDASH.