FCE HD and Canon XL1

New Mac with FCE HD 3.5 preinstalled. Not wanting to connect device just yet as prompted by FCE setup. Noticed that the Canon XL1 was not specifically mentioned as being compatiable in NTSC, though it was listed for PAL. Could someone please advise if the Cannon XL1 is good to go on FCE HD. Thanks in advance.
iMac Mac OS X (10.4.4)

The drive heads of your internal drive are busy reading and writing data from the OS, any other open apps and background processes (1 reason that you should have as few applications open as possible whilst editing video).
Processing video is very demanding and works with large files, so to capture video to a system drive that is already working hard can tax it to the extent that can drop frames etc.
It's therefore recommended to capture to an external FWHD to reduce the burden on the system drive. Also if you save your project file to your system drive and autosave vault to your external, should you have a drive failure on either drive you have a recent backup. (I also save a copy of my project file to a removable USB flash drive for added security/peace of mind.)
Oh yeah and don't fill either drive more than 90% (80% if possible) as this can cause dropped frames/unpredictable behaviour and that's a best case scenario.
As far as the deck situation applies, before you decide to go for the dedicated deck, you need to consider if you could get away with using a cheap DV camcorder (useful in it's own right - I have one with me at all times - you don't know when you may come across that once-in-a-lifetime opportunity - just think if Abraham Zapruder didn't have his Bell & Howell Zoomatic 8mm movie camera with him in Dallas on Nov 22, 1963?)
Unless, of course, you are going do a lot of work with it or money's no object.

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Ian & Tom, First of all thanks for your ideas and quick replies, I really appreciate it.
I'm using a (Belkin) FW hub but have re-routed things so the camera is going directly to one of the computer's two FW ports. Have tried all suggestions provided in your posts but the best I'm able to get is a message that reads, "Unable to initialize video deck. You may still use Capture Now." When I go to capture mode, however, no controls are usable and it says, "not communicating."
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sorry I should have made myself abit clearer.....when the tape is played back in my XL1 I can hear audio when my headphones are pluged into the camera also the camera has audio monitors which I can see movement verifying there is audio. However in FCE I don't see any audio level movement.
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Neville,
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