Drop Frames stopping huge project

Trying to digitize 64 hours for a doc I shot at the Tour de France. Getting frequent drop frame stops on all tapes.
Four cameras/deck used to transfer (none successful) Sonys & Canon
Have latest OS, QT & FCP
source material: mini-DV SD
• tapes transfer perfectly on another FCP system (assume tape good)
• tapes transfer on straight QT injest no issue (assume deck, cable, QT ok)
• tapes injest on IMOVIE without issue (assume deck, cable, QT & HD ok
so ONLY A PROBLEM IN FCP
• tried scratching to other internal drives, incl OS drive
• ditched Prefs twice
• reinstalled FCP
• tried different cams/decks
• tried firewire and FW basic use settings
I was so hoping that reinstall FCP would do it & I do not know now what's left to check. it points to FCP but I've never had this problem before. ANY suggestions would be more than appreciated.
DID NOT:
• reinstall QT Pro
• reinstall OS
Michael: [email protected]

After two weeks we finally swapped out the Firewire cord which I mistakenly scratched off the bad list because both IMOVIE and QT ingested the tapes just fine. I got a shielded one. oh man, so simple!!!

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