[Dstroud]

I am having the same problem with my imac g5, Lacie 250 gig hard drive running FCE 3.0 with a panasonic GS 300. I have erased and repartitioned my hard drive and same problem…. I have ran my setup for a year and a half, no problems. Now video freezes for a second or two, audio keeps trucking. From the freeze forward there is a audio/video tear. Is it my camera, g5, FCE, or hard drive. I am going to import to imovie and see if it freezes anf then import to final cut. If you figure something out let us know…. Good Luck.

[Dstroud]

In the veiwer, what percentage are you looking at in the window. Do you have it set on “Fit in Window” or do yo have it set on 100%. Try changing the button over the actual viewer window to “Fit in Window”. Hope this works for the jumpy video. I know you have probably tried this but I didnt see anyone else mention it.
Good Luck!
Dave

[Dstroud]

Thanks for the reply. I am saving to the external hard drive and have 59.9 gigs left and I feel pretty sure that I am not saving to the internal hard drive. I have the captures scratch set to the external. I have two firewire ports… 1 for the hard drive the other for my Panasonic PV-GS300. This has worked like a chram for the past 15 jobs that I have done. Not sure what to do… other than to export what I have to my desktop and erase the external and start over. Thoughts?