Cannot capture to external drive

been said before, by myself and others, here we go again.
Canon XH-A1 , HDV 1080i footage.
way back 6 months ago..
i couldnt capture to external disk on PBG4.
then i got a MBPro , still couldnt cap to external disk.
then i got a mac Pro , still cant cap to external disk.
at least it now captures to system drive,
at first it had unknown error, then just crashed on initializing log n capture,
reinstalled QT, trashed prefs, repaired permissions and kicked the dog.
APPLE!!!! FIX IT!!!

in the PBG4 it was a PCM FW400 card in the slot.
BUT,
if it will capture to the system drive then how would some supposed timecode problem prevent it capturing to an external drive?
so you reckon i should add PCIe FW card to the Mac Pro?
blimey..!!
also,
before changing to the MacPro FCP on MBP went crook,
adding a basic transition caused a crash,
re-opening the main sequence was gone,
finally found an autosave file in the trash!!
while i am here, other questions not answered elsewhere,
if i were to capture the camera's HDV tape info via component out into a Blackmagic card would that give a better overall quality?
would this make editing easier?
is there any difference in doing this (via cap card) versus changing the HDV to ProRes or PhotoJPG in the sequence?
Or,
would capturing from HDMI out (my camera doesn't have it, but just imagine),
into capture card, give a better quality image?
also,
would a card help with rendering times?
also,
since compressor is so slow and bad,
what is the best program to compress an excellent looking QT output file for writing a SD DVD?
so far the basic Visual Hub program does a better job much faster,
but still doesn't look very good on DVD,
what other programs are there?

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