IDVD 08 freezes while importing from camera for OneStep DVD

I am importing video from a Sony camcorder (dv) as the first step in a onestep DVD process. I have tried two different tapes and it has frozen both times - once at 14 min. and the second at 19 min. It seems to be in the middle of a scene in both cases. The camera is still running, but iDVD is no longer importing and is reported as "No Response". Have to Force Quit.
Any ideas?

I appreciate the disk space problem, as the first time I tried to capture, it ran out of space on my internal drive. That's when I moved the capture to the firewire drive.
So I checked the internal drive - 13.6GB available before capture. In addition, I monitored it throughout the capture process (using the application "What Size", which tells you how big all your files are) and found it stayed stable throughout the capture sequence.
Meanwhile, the firewire drive showed the captured file to be growing as it captured more video. I've tried to capture this particular tape twice, and I see that it froze with the captured file size at EXACTLY the same size: 4,294,934,528 bytes. This is about 19 min, 53 sec. of video.
I wonder if a) it only really works capturing to the internal drive, or b) if something got messed up when I ran out of space the first time. I think it did capture all or most of the tape when I ran it the first time on the internal drive.
I guess I could clear more space on the internal drive and give that a go again. Ideas?
Doug

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