[Demonguile]

and 1 more thing.
just because it worked in premiere 6.0 or 6.5
does not mean the same for PPro 1.0/1.5
Ppro has larger system requirments and demand more from your system than premiere 6.0/6.5 would have

[Demonguile]

just to let you know, premiere pro is not recommended for laptop use.(yes i know what it says on the box for hardware specs)
more than likely what you are experiencing is a bandwith issue. Laptops have limitiations that can cause problems in premiere during capturing and playback, on laptops usb and firewire share bandwith (i’m not saying that your laptop is inadequeate). This is a hardware limitation that premiere is not able to work around(blame your shared system bus and memory and limited bandwith)
you can try to either to
1. disconnect other devices firewire,USB,printers, & scanners etc…from your laptop
2. uninstall and reinstall premiere.
3. install premiere on a desktop machine and try to capture and see if you can use device control(if you are able to use device control on the desktop with no porblems, then the issue is narrowed down to your laptop)
4. update to the latest drivers for you firewire port
5. look for 3rd party dv codecs on the system and remove them.(pinnacle dv codecs, sony dv codecs, and/or streaming audio codecs)
6. uninstall the firwire card from the device manager, and then delete the registry keys in the registry, reboot (don’t worry windows will reinstall the drivers and create new entries in the registry for the hardware) and then retry to capture and check your results.

firewire through pcimia cards does not always work(ever or rarely, some people have no problems though)

Now saying all of that, there are some people who have highend laptops that have no problems. so it could be a number of things, these are simply suggestions that you could try, or further investigate yourself

[Demonguile]

just to let you know, premiere pro is not recommended for laptop use.
more than likely what you are experiencing is a bandwith issue. Laptops have limitiations that can cause problems in premiere during capturing and playback, on laptops usb and firewire share bandwith (i’m not saying that your laptop is inadequeate). This is a hardware limitation that premiere is not able to work around(blame your shared system bus and memory and limited bandwith)
you can try to either to
1. disconnect other devices firewire,USB,printers, & scanners etc…from your laptop
2. uninstall and reinstall premiere.
3. install premiere on a desktop machine and try to capture and see if you can use device control
4. update to the latest drivers for you firewire port
firewire through pcimia cards do not and will not work (ever or rarely)

If you don’t believe me call tech support and see what they say. though if you don’t have a product contract i would wait to call them until monday, so you don’t have to pay for the call on weekends

[Demonguile]

Just one thing to keep in mind here when working with premiere pro on a laptop are the actual hardware differnces between a desktop
1. hdd- it needs to be at 7200 rpm(internal) external hardrives do not provide the same data transfer rate as internal hard drives even though they have speeds up to 7200 rpm. the data transfer rate is slower.(it has caused problems for some people, not everybody though)corrupted footage and projects, dropped frames during capture, or poor playback during editing* if you have other devices connected to the laptop disconnect them to cut back on system resource use(printers,dv devices etc.)That means if a usb hdd and IEEE1394 device plugged in. Then something has to go.
2. video card – shared system memory, need i say more(make sure you have the latest drivers)
3. on board sound card – laptops have emulated sound cards. Some which may cause problems, although if your emulated card supports ASIO you should be alright
4. CPU type – as long as it supports SSE2 and is a current intel or amd model, you should be good to go performance will slighty differ between the two chip types

[Demonguile]

If those colour spots look like little blocks all through out your image or layers, then I have bad news for you. That is what you call banding.(What is banding?) Banding usually occurs when you working a large file, lets say well 400 megs or larger, and you happen to be working off a networked drive. (yes that includes external USB hard drives) then what is going on is when you open the image in Photoshop, it tells your hardrive hand me the file right now, now since it’s on a networked drive the file has to make a few stops along the way (7200 rpms means nothing here) because the acutal data transfer rate is slower than your internal drive because of all the stops the makes before it finally opening in Photoshop. So what happens here is photoshop thinks that the file is fully open when its spooling over the network in the system. So you make your changes and save them and then when you reopen the image, bang…….or you just defragged your drive and the files were not stored in the USER main folder(pc only)(C:\Documents and Settings\yourname\Documents\etc…..)guess what, windows just rearanged your image