I don’t understand why you don’t capture from tape into FCP. I mean, if you want to edit in FCP you will have to buy or rent a Mac or MBP with FCP anyway, or am I missing something?
Have you tried decreasing RAM allocation for FCP ? I know it sounds counterintuitive but I have always been wondering if Motion may be running in the background in these situations, desperate for memory
I wasn’t aware that Apple described it the way you mentioned, so I don’t know. Actually I thought that I followed the method from the manual, with the small modification of the button assignment.