Capturing...Preview Disabled??

Hi all,
I'm trying to capture with final cut express HD 3.5 and the preview is disabled in the capture window. How can I enable the preview for the capture window? I've been searching for past little while and can't seem to find anything.

sorry,
G5 1.8 ghz
1gb ram
OSX leopard
Panasonic Palmsight miniDV
connected through Firewire
Scratch disk is set to main hard disk of computer
NTSC 720x480

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Okay so I don't think I'm the only one but figgured I'd post just to see what the status is.
Today I went to capture some plain ol' DV footage from my Panasonic PV-GS500 minidv camcorder and was unable to... sorta.
If I try to capture I get the message "preview disabled" and at the top it shows (AV)(Unknown).
If I try to capture now i get the message "Attempt to capture video without a video device selected. Please select a video device in your capture presets and try again".
I'm using that NTSC Anamorphic easy setup and had no troubles in the past. I beleive that it might have something to do with QT 7.3 as others have suggested.
What makes it so strange is that if I log clips (monitoring on the cameras LCD itself) and then batch capture it appears to work fine. I can also send video to the Camera.
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I have checked and double checked that my settings are correct, that video and audio are selected in capture settings etc etc.
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I've read a lot of different stuff about the 'preview disabled' problem but can't find a satisfactory awnser.
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Interesting.
That remedy suggests to me that your camera has auto sensing input/output terminals.
A lot of gear has that type to make things easier for the user, so called connect and forget method. Ironically as in your case it's sort of made things harder because a signal needs to be present to actually switch it on.
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Welcome to the family.
I have nothing to offer, someone will in a few minutes/hours/days.
Meantime search the forum archives for that camera model (which I do not use and know nothing about)
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