External video for FCP

I'm using a new Sony tape deck and MacBookPro to edit DV from miniDV Panasonic tapes. I have used this tape deck extensively at my university but not on a laptop. I'm connecting the Sony tape deck to my laptop with a Sony iLink firewire cable. FCP identifies the tape deck and under the log and capture window appears [vtr ok]. I can control the video playback from my FCP, but the image and sound does not appear in the log and capture window. It only plays on the deck. Because of this, I can not capture anything. I'm in Colombia, SA and I have not found anyone here yet who can help me with this. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Truly desperate,
ecic

On the assumption the tape is really DV-NTSC or DV-PAL (which ever it SHOULD BE), and the tape deck is set up to match the tape, try capturing a short segment with iMovie. Does it work? if so, make sure you are using the proper Quick preset. If you are, you may need to use the quicktime delete receipts and reinstall shuffle:
Go to /library/receipts and delete any files that say Quicktime followed by a number e.g. Quicktime703.pkg
Go to the Apple quicktime site and download the appropriate version of Quicktime to your hard drive.
Run the Quicktime installer.
Reboot
Repair Disk Permissions for your System Disk (Disk Utility > Select the system disk > Repair Disk Permissions)
Good luck.
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