Firewire capturing won't work anymore...

Everytime I hook a DV or HDV cam to my mac and try to entering capture mode on any video editing application (Final cut Pro, Premiere Pro, iMovie, iMovie HD), the programm freezes up till I shut the camera off...and capturing works fine on a windows PC.
I am using OSX 10.5.4, Quicktime 7.5, Sony VX1000e, Canon HV30 Pal.
Does someone has any idea what could be wrong with my system?
Message was edited by: TimurY

- I just bought my Powerbook last summer, so I don't
think that battery problem applies to the 1.67 GHz
model. If it does, the doc doesn't list a part #.
It's very unlikely but you know we're talking about batteries so you can never be sure about 'em.
Anyway verify that your clock battery is fine:
-Fully charge your PB's external battery
-Work on the battery untill it drains out the PB goes to sleep
-Leave the PB asleeb for 2-5 minutes
-Plug in the mains adaptor, wake up the PB and reboot
If date+time is displayed correctly, then everything's fine + dandy with the battery
What I don't understand is why one of the drives has
yet to malfunction. It has gone through the same
environment as all the others, and I've yet to have a
problem.
hmm unfortuantely IDE drives can fail for a myriad of reasons, keep in mind that they're only built for low price (not performance and reliability)
It's utilized the same cable, the same
enclosure, and the same software installations and
updates. Everything has been running fine until about
a month ago.
Do you think the drives are now damaged
because of some software setting, or could the drive
possibly work with another computer?
Since you had 2 drives fail on the same (and as you say intact/unchanged channel (environment)) then there's obviously somthing wrong with your channel in a physical/link level (at some point).
Or some malfuctioning software is causing corruption on your HD channel.
Did you go through a brody's faq? it's an excellent starting point
Pismo - MacMini - Dual G5 Mac OS X (10.4.5) SGI O2 R12K/400/1G/Irix 6.5.29
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