Thanks for the response. I realized after I posted the question that I was jumping through a lot of hoops to get a marginally better signal. I do have FCP 7 on my MacBook Pro laptop. The issues I am having is when I am trying to shoot green screen. I have a decent set-up & have really worked at keeping the background nice & flat. It just seems like I still get a little edging when I capture to tape & then ingest that footage from the camera.
I will try to capture straight to my laptop using the firewire to bypass the compression, as I do have one of the earlier versions of the H1 that does not have the embedded audio in the SDI. That is really a bummer & wish there was a way to upgrade that.
Thanks again, Peace Pete