[Thejackles]

Thanks Tom. The camera settings are HDV 1080i50 and the FCP easy setup i am using is HDV 1080i50 using HDV firewire. I have shot about six minutes of HDV using an HDV tape, just as a test to see if it works with the computer. i called Apple and they suggested i change the camera setting to down convert to DV and set the FCP settings to DVPAL, to see if that works, which I will try tonight when I get home. But that won’t help in the long term. Any ideas???? Should i provide you with more info from the settings menus?