CS3 - Video freezes on Capture and Playback - Please Help!

Question

Hello all,
Here's the problem:
When Capturing footage via firewire from Mini DV, shot in standard DV, within a standard NTSC-DV Widescreen 48k Project, the picture freezes after 1 second.  The audio can still be heard and the footage actually does get captured.  However, after the footage has been conformed, and we load the clip into the Source Window and hit play, the video again freezes after 1 second of play.  Again, the audio keeps playing and you can move the marker anywhere on the clip and see that all the footage is indeed there, but as soon as you go to play it from any point - same thing, the picture freezes after 1 second of play, making editing impossible.  The clip is being captured as an .avi and all capture settings appear to be correct.
Here's the kicker:
- HDV video captures and plays back fine.
- The DV video captured correctly at first, this has been a recent problem going on now for several weeks, after no changes to the system.
- The biggest kicker - after trying successfully to capture, playback and edit HDV video, we closed Premiere, reopened, tried to play the previously captured DV footage and it played just fine suddenly!!!  Then we closed the program, re-opened and tried again - back to the freezing problem and it never played back fine again...
Here's the specs (I can give more specifics later if needed, it's my partner's computer):
Sony PD-150 DV-Cam (but recording on Mini DV in standard DV mode, not DV-Cam)
Windows 7
Intel Core i7 3.20 ghz
Asus X58 Motherboard with onboard Audio and Firewire
6 GB Ram
Nvidia Geforce 9 Series with PhysX
Please help if you have any idea how to solve a crazy problem like this.  Thank you!!!
Greg

Answer 1

Now that everything is working, make a full drive image to an external USB hard drive
I use http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/image-for-linux.htm