Preview Disabled when Capturing in FCE

Hi,
I'm having trouble capturing footage from some Mini-DV tapes my dad shot. I'm using a Mini-DV deck to capture from but everytime I insert the tape and try to capture the device plays the tape but no video is sent to the computer. I don't get an error message or anything like that. The video just doesn't show up and preview disabled is all I see in my capture window.
Any suggestions as to why this is happening??? It's really frustrating.

Please give your full system specifications, what computer, what drives, what camera or deck, how everything's connected, what settings are on the media, what settings you're using in FCE, and finally what version of the software, of the OS, and of QT are you using?

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