Trouble Capturing Analogue Video

I have been successfully using a canopus card to convert analogue video from a VHS tape deck to digital video in PE4.All of a sudden it stopped working. I can still see video when I run stop motion, but when I return to capture mode there is no video and no sound. I've tried changing all the settings in capture settings and device control, to no avail. I'm probably missing something simple, but it's driving me nuts. Any ideas?
Braham

Braham,
Maybe un-seat, and re-seat the actual card - power off, of course. If that does not work, carefully remove the card and use a normal pencil eraser to clean the gold contacts. I always run the eraser down the length of each contact - both sides. Do
b NOT
touch the contacts with your fingers! I use compressed air to blow any eraser dust off, and then re-seat the card.
If this does not help, you may have a chip on the card going out.
Good luck,
Hunt

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...take a high quality screenshot from the current video stream and safe it on the harddisk...
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Thanks for the reply Tom. (BTW I'm not the original poster.)
You are correct- It is a USB drive formatted FAT 32 . After my original post, I erased the drive and started over with a clean slate. This was successful for tape one (about 60 minutes). About twenty minutes into tape two though, it was deja vu all over again. FC froze, I force quit, and lost all of what I had captured from tape one in the process. I unsuccessfully tried to recapture tape one. Same problem again.
Although this is the first time I've tried to capture through FC onto an external drive, I've got three other USB drives full of video I've captured from VHS with the same computer through a DV encoder. When you say USB is not supported by Apple for video applications, does that mean video editing applications? As for complete information, apologies but I'm not exactly sure what other info. you mean. Please let me know. Thanks again. I appreciate the time.

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iMovie and FCE have little in common and FCE uses QuickTime files that carry timecode. That's probably why iMovie seems to work.
The FCE Easy Setup sounds OK.
I suspect a tape problem because it is repeatable on the same spot. Whether the tape is physically damaged or it's simply non-contiguous timecode.
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The timecode counts like a clock and a break in it's continuos counting will upset capture.
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Is this worth the little extra over the Pinnacle product, and if so, why? It seems to me that it can be used without a computer, just plugging a DV camcorder into the DV out socket, and an analogue source into the S-Video / composite jacks, is that the only difference?
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I would heartily recommend the Canopus product over the Pinnacle. I have and use the Canopus ADVC-100, an earlier version of the now current ADVC-110, and don't have single thing to say against it.
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Not sure where to post but hopefully I'll find some help here...
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I use the EyeTV Hybrid fro El Gato, along with MPEG Streamclip (free).
Another option is to check out the Digital Analog Convertors from Grass Valley. Many people like these.
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Premiere Pro does not natively capture from TV or graphics cards.
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