LOG and TRANSFER stall with Sony MRU unit

Hi- LOG AND TRANSFER of my 1.5 hour footage only gets to about 10% of import then goes "idle".
Any thoughts?
thanks in advance!

I may not be of much help, but at least I know what you are talking about camera-wise as I have a Z7U also.
It is rare I have a problem with capture but when I do it is all or nothing, not 10% then goes idle.
The few times I have had problems was when I tried to record to tape at the same time and had it set so the buttons were pushed separately so I could keeping recording on the compact flash over those seconds when I had to change tapes. So now I just have them synced together and set up another camera (unmanned if necessary) to record during changing tapes so I will have audio, then if I don't like the video on it, shoot some cut-away with the Z7U camera that I can use during that short space.
More to your point, under Final Cut System Settings, you don't have the Limit Capture box checked do you?
Has it ever worked for you?
I used to have pretty much your same machine and it worked, using FCP 6.0.6
Sharon

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