Capturing In FCE

Am trying to capture some DV footage into FCE, and when 2 GB of film is imported, I get a warning saying that capture has ben stopped due to lack of memory space. I have 500GB free!! This means that only 9 mins of film can be captured at a time and it is a real pain. The camera is a Cony camcorder, and the OS is the latest. I can capture in iMovie, so does anybody know why FCE AND FCPro create an issue?

Hi
lack of memory can mean two things
• Free Space on Start-up boot hard disk - Other hard disks of NO Interest !
It's here Mac OS and Application store it's temp files - can't be addressed to other drive.
I go for a minimum of 25GB - when doing SD-video. HD-video most probably needs more.
• Amount of RAM - If AVCHD is Imported/Captured - amount of RAM is important
(To me hear say - but sounds very possibly)
6GB - should be more than enough
Yours Bengt W

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