[Kevin Sauve]

Thanks for the feedback.

I’m using FW800 to connect the camera to my Mac. However, the feed to the external is USB. Trying to capture to the internal HD was a last resort; I can see why you would say it’s a bad idea.

I’m assuming the problem is with the USB to the external. Perhaps I should purchase an eSATA cable? Funny part is that we’ve used this exact method on another Macbook without the same error. Capture would sometimes stop, but we would rewind the tape by one minute and begin capture again. I’m assuming that capturing stopped because USB wasn’t fast enough, but still, Final Cut didn’t crash.

Using this same Macbook (as in paragraph two) on the tape I’m capturing now, results in the program freezing on that machine as well. Could it possibly be the tape? or the settings?

Thanks Again.
Kevin