DVCAM capture choppy and out of sync

I'm capturing Sony DVCAM tapes using a Panasonic DVX camera & firewire 400 four-to-six pin cable into FCP using the DV NTSC 29.97 setting.
The tape plays fine in the camera, but the captured clips in the browser are choppy and way out of sync (and are that way when brought into a sequence, too).
There isn't a DVCAM setting that I can see for the capture, and DVCAM is just DV format anyway... or is it? Any tips? Do I need to use a Sony camera for the capture? Rrrrgh....

If the material is actually DVCAM media it will not play back in a Panasonic camera. You need a Sony device for playback. It's just DV but it's recorded differently, different head pitch with higher speed tape.

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Message was edited by: philosearcher88

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