Tapeless capture direct to FCP?

I really like the look of Serious Magic 'DV Rack' software.
It allows you to hook a camcorder up to your laptop and capture directly to your hard disk. Providing your laptop is a PC......
I've tried to capture directly from a camcorder in record, using 'capture now' but had no joy.
Anyone done this?
Any tips?
TIA
Miller.

If you edit using the direct-capture media, make sure you backup that media file to something.
There's no timecode associated with it, so recreating it without that exact same media file would be tedious at best.

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