[Kaweah0824]

Thank you for your reply. I’ve always captured to external firewire drives with no problems. I had considered that it may be a problem with the external hard drive, but like I said, the drop out only occurs when the deck is on. Are you saying that there might be a problem with streaming from a firewire external hard drive through FCP to my firewire DVCAM deck? I had also considered that, but it seems to work fine on other computers with the same hard drive. Any other suggestions? Thanks again!