[Kevin Coughlin]

Hi,
I am capturing from tape and I’m putting on the External drive thru firewire from a mini dv deck. The thing that has me troubleshooting this is I’ve never had a problem like this before and it seems like the freezing began once I got a new power supply for the LACIE. Also another thing I got about 4 months ago is the INTERNET SAFETY.COM feature for my computer. I have noticed that even though I DON’T have the internet on at the time….MY FINAL CUT PRO WILL STOP WHILE I’M VIEWING VIDEO ON A TIMELINE…AND I’LL LOOK UP IN THE LEFTHAND CORNER OF THE MONITOR TO SEE THE “SAFE EYES” (which is what it is called) pops up on my computer. I called that company and they told me that the SAFE EYES program will “CHECK ITSELF” periodically even if its off. I did check the video at the time it happened during rendering one time and it in fact “froze the video 3 times in about 5 seconds”. But then there are times where the “SAFE EYES” won’t pop up and it still FREEZES. I want to get rid of the “SAFE EYES” safety on the computer. Could that be part of the problem?

[Kevin Coughlin]

I’m using SONY MINI-DV 60 MIN. PREMIUM TAPE. THE DRIVE IS A LACIE EXTERNAL TERABYTE FIREWIRE DRIVE….I’M CONNECTED TO THE VIDEO VIA FIREWIRE…AND I’M CAPTURING TO A QUICK TIME CODEC.
Could my LACIE being dying out on me because I just replaced the power supply for it about a month ago…and before I did…it was making a noise like it was “breathing”!!! I didn’t know what was going on….but the power supply was extremely hot….so much so I put a fan on it to cool it down and keep the LACIE from making that noise.