Freezing upon capturing

I run FCX 1 on a g4 466 10.4.9 recently I have been experiencing freezing upon capturing footage from either my JVC deck or vx 2100 . The audio goes totally out of sync also. It happens with any external drive and even the mac hd. Also I went to another machine, captured to my Wd 500 drive and when I got home, only one of the tapes was there-(there are two in the project) I went back to the lab and looked- both tapes exist on the drive but my computer cannot find one.
I recentl upgraded to QT 7- could that affect anything? Trashed p lists, re started, even got new fw cables. Am at the end of my rope- help!

If your capture woes started soon after the QT 7 install then it's entirely possible.
Should you want to re-install a previous version look here:
http://search.info.apple.com/index.html?q=quicktime%20reinstaller&lr=lang_en&sea rch=Go

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