PROBLEMS IMPORTING FROM VCR!

1-When importing from a VCR on FCPRO 10.1.1, the image in the import window is not fluid but jurky and unstable! ANYONE HAVING THAT PROBLEM?
2-Still importing, the left arrow often switch the import unit from the vdr to an external drive instead of playing the vcr backward!!! ANY CLUE?
I'm working on a brand new IMac 27" with Maverick.
Thanks,
JP

JP Maher1 wrote:
The import window is very stable using IMovie!!! No more jerkily images... I tought I had a video card problem but it seems that FCP 10.1.1 causes the problem...
ALSO: when I wrote: 2-Still importing, the left arrow often switch the import unit from the vdr to an external drive instead of playing the vcr backward!!! ANY CLUE?
I MEANT THE JKL keys, not arrows, sorry!!!
JP
Clue: when you press a key and the focus is on a list of names, like it happens in a Finder window, the selection will follow your keys - like, for example, if I open a Finder window in the Applications folder and type the letter j I select Keynote because it is the first name, alphabetically, starting at or after the letter j.
My guess is this is a matter of which part of the interface has focus. If it is the file list, then such behavior is expected.

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