Allocating Disk Space freeze

So I upgraded to Leopard and since that time I am not able to capture footage in FCE 3.0 - as soon as I hit 'capture now' the capture window pops up and states that it is 'allocating disk space' and then I get the pinwheel of death. I've never had this issue before. Any ideas?

Okay this morning I switched it back to 'NTSC Firewire basic' and it communicated with the camera - I clicked capture now and it seems to be working fine again. I am capturing to the ext. drive that uses firewire and not USB. I don't understand why, I've never had issues capturing to the USB connected ext. drive before?
So far as I know it's 12 bit audio and 4:3 aspect ratio. The PD170 doesn't shoot a true 16:9 aspect ratio.

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