Final Cut Freezes up

I got the computer but not the brains, can some one help? When I log and capture footage Final Cut Pro freezes up but no other program is effected, I have to force quit to get out. This problem happened out of nowhere, I had log and capture set to uncontrollable device to ignore time code. I have a 500 gig external hard drive everything else is stock, I installed FCP as part of the Final Cut Studio pack, I had been instructed to throw away the preferences/restart even re-enstalled FCP but I still have the same problem can some one please help? Thank you very much

Thanks for your help, I'm using a firewire and my cheap video camera as the source to play the mini dv from, it's not the same camera I used to shoot the footage. all I have been doing is bring up log and capture, make sure it's set to non-controllable device press play on the camera then capture now on log and capture. I haven't had any problems with it before, the only difference is the make of video tape but even trying to down load previously loaded tapes has the same problem, thanks again, any advice? is it a computer problem not a FCP problem?

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