Idvd onestep won't capture movie

When I hook up the camera with the tape and hit one step it rewinds tape and starts playing tape.  3 seconds in it stops and says no video captured, aborted.  Movie on tape is 2 hours 2 minutes long but I don't think the program knows that yet.  Can't change encoding yet either since it has not captured anything yet.  First time I've tried onestep.  Any help?

Just to add to the Len's good advice.... and after confirming you have at least 20GB's of available HD space, look for the following item/s.
com.apple.iDvd.plist
Just copy & paste the above item in bold directly to the Finder (happy face on the dock), hit return, and then drag this item/s to the trash. Empty the trash.
Now connect you camcorder to your iMac via firewire cable.
Power up the camcorder and cue the tape to the approximate start point (manually). Keep the camcorder powered up.
Now launch iDVD6. And try the One step process again thru iDVD. It should work.
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