Fce 3 capture freezes approx. 5 minutes in.

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Hello everyone,
Grasping for direction or answers. When I am capturing video to my final cut express 3, the video freezes after approx. 5 minutes in but the drive continues to capture until the out point.
Here's the events that led to my situation.
500 gb western digital(2007 model) ext hd dies. Mac g4 powerbook 15" (osx 10.3.9 panther 1ghz ram)reads "drive inserted is not os formatted..)I get the old drive checked out and it pans out that it has died. I purchase new 1tb hd Hitach that is compatible for mac os 10.3.9. I format hard drive to extended (not journaled). I attempt to capture clip longer than 5 minutes and it freezes as stated above. I trash pref and do a repair permission. I use a different playback device. I move the usb 2.0 cable from new hard drive to another port. I attempted to capture with the internal hd. Same results. Had the firewire cable checked out, it was fine. Quicktime version is 7.5 version. I'm missing something but what? Tonight I will go and check my set up choice in the preference folder and play with the fire wire setting if maybe that was changed somehow. All system was working beautifully until the hard drive failure. Thanks for any suggestions.
Update: The old drive was a usb connection, not firewire but I'll check with a firewire based hard drive. I played with the fire wire connections in the system pref of fce last night and that did not work. Made sure that the wave form, thumbnail cache, ect in the scratch pref were the same drives, same results. The old drive was a 500 gb. New drive is a 1 tb. Is it possible the difference could effect the capture command?
Thanks..
A.Moreira

Answer 1

Mac g4 powerbook 15" (*osx 10.3.9 panther 1ghz ram*)
New 1tb hd Hitachi SimpleIII that is compatible for mac os 10.3.9.
I format hard drive to extended (not journaled).
I attempt to capture clip longer than 5 minutes and it freezes.
I trash pref and do a repair permission. I used a different playback device (JVC Mini DV pro-sumer then dvc 80 panasonic cam). I move the usb 2.0 cable from new hard drive to another port.
*I attempted to capture with* *the internal hd. Same results.*
Had the firewire cable checked out,(goes from the camera playback to the computer).. it was fine.
Quicktime version is 7.5 version. What's got me is that the failure still persists even with the internal drive.
Final cut express 3 version.
Media ,mini dv standard def shot with the panasonic agdvc 80.
Firewire setting to both DV-ntsc and firewire basic, same failure.
Was able to capture full one hour video with same footage prior to the situation that started with hard drive crash.
A. Moreira