[Tim Smith]

Iv read alot of the same problem, which I am also encountering.
Has anyone found a cure for this??
I cant find anything across forums that has had an answer.

I have a slight twist to the tale.

After many days of testing/playing about, I was able to capture my HDV footgae fine. It looked great and it captured as it should.
ONLY, the next day same settings, back to how it was….not recognising my Canon XHA1 atall.

Capture in SD, that works also, so why not HDV.
I have read many articles surrounding faulty firewire ports. Could this be related. I shouldn’t see why as SD captures fine.

grayed menus are also odd on insertion of firewire cable, is canon not telling us something??
I spend 80% of the time sitting, looking knowing there is no menu option I haven’t tried.

Recorded in: HDV 25F 1080i
Capturing at: HDV firewire basic/ HDV/ 1080i 25f
FCP: 5
OSX: 10.5.10

I may take your advise tim and try qt to get the process moving.