Final Cut Pro capturing problems.

[BAF]

I'm was doing an 8mm to dv transfer and I tryied to capture from the cam straight into final cut. There was an error message sayng that there was no timecode. So then I figured just shoot it on tape and capture it the normal way, but then when I tryed it the video input was all of the sudden disabled. I was still able to control the deck and the timecode shows up in final cut but no video whatsoever. A "preview disabled" message shows up in the capture window, and I get a "No Video" error message when I tryied to capture.
I played with every single tab, trying all different options for about 2 days now and have not fixed the problem. Maybe I screwed something up when I tryed the camera thing?

[willrob]

Is the 8mm camera connected via firewire? Or are you using some sort of pass through device? If I want to use my old 8mm tapes I need to play through my DV camcorder, in which case FCP can't see the originating deck. So I have to get the footage onto the computer with iMovie and then transfer it to FCP.

[Frobozz]

I presume you've tried restarting your Mac.

[BAF]

I referring to 8mm film. I'm projecting it trough a rear projection box while filming it with an XL1. When I tryed to capture the feed directly it did not work so I just taped it and played it back on the deck and tryied to capture it the normal way.
The 8mm has nothing to do with the problem except for that maybe my set up changed some option somewhere and now final cut's not capturing the way it's supposed to.[/i]