Hi Dean
I have my VHS player connected to a Canon MV700i mini DV camera that is connected to my eMac (G4 1.25GHz) via firewire. I also have an external HDD (500GB) connected to a firewire port which I use as my scratch disk.
I have used this set up many times before with no problems. It has been over a year since I have done any editing and was having trouble getting it to work this time. FCP would freeze everytime I begun capturing. I eventually figured out the problem. I had upgraded to Quicktime 7 since I last did any capturing. I run OSX 10.3.9. I re-installed Quicktime 6 and everything is now working perfectly. Except for these couple of old tapes!
If anyone else has any ideas, I would be most grateful.