Noise in Firewire capturing

Hi there!
We are using Flash Media Live Encoder 2.5, trying to capture
directly FLV files from a DV camera, trough a firewire connection
for both video and audio. On the contrary to what we have read in
these forums, everything is working properly with the firewire
connection... except for a strange noise we get.
With some of our tapes (not with all of them) we get a
strange high pitch noise in the FLV file. Of course, that noise is
not in our tape, as we always get perfect sound from a mixer. Which
can be the reason? Anyone else with these symptons?
Thanks in advance!

Try following:
click the Camera app, slide the photo-movie slider on the bottom right to movie then back completely. Close Camera app, double click home button twice and really quit camera.
If that does not help, do it again, then do a reset: hold both Home and Power button for about 10 seconds until you see the white apple logo then let go.

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