Capturing Video 8 via Canopus SDVC-300

I am trying to capture some old Video 8 material. I'm using a Canopus ADVC-300 video converter to convert the analog video to DV. The have the Firewire output of the ADVC-300 connected to the Firewire input on my Mac. I have FCP set to: NTSC/DV 48 kHZ and Non-Controllable Device.
When I attempt to Capture Now, FCP says that there is no video.
I tested the output of the ADVC-300 by connecting it to a camcorder and there appears to be both video and audio.
The ADVC-300 was initially set to Unit. I set it to PC but then I believe I have to change device control to Firewire. I was able to begin capturing, again using Capture Now. But at one point FCP lost the time code and stopped capturing. I know the analog has no time code, but I'm not sure if the ADVC-300 is supplying time code?
If there is anyone who has used one of these successfully, please let me know what I'm doing wrong in my setup.

10,415 posts. Obviously not all bad.
Thanks, it worked.
I'm not sure what the SW did, as I didn't change anything, simply installed it, ran it and quit. But it must have done something because it is working flawlessly now. (even handling the drop outs with no errors)
I didn't think there was timecode. But when I tried to capture the Firewire output of the analog source via the Sony GV-D200 not using non-controllable device, Capture Now would not capture anything, since it never saw any timecode.
With the ADVC-300 in place (and not their SW), it would not capture with non-controllable device with the unit's operation mode set to Unit. If I set it to PC, FCP Capture Now would work, but with a standard Firewire device setting. The source has some drop out, so it would stop capturing waiting on timecode. Which I thought was odd, since (as you stated) I didn't think there was any timecode. Unless the Canopus unit is attempting to create timecode? I wouldn't think so.
Anyway, many thanks.

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