I have a Mac Mini with Premiere 6.5, and my problem is with the capture. I'm using an older Digi-8 camera, by sony. This camera has worked just fine in many past projects, even with this same computer.

Despite having tried every capture setting change I could find to adjust (audio sample rate and compressor) I keep getting this problem. I've tried capturing with the batch capture and manually. I've closed and re-opened, I've trashed entire projects with clips and started over from scratch. Yet I am still getting this strange effect.

Oh, I've also cleared out a bunch of large files, clearing off 30 gigabytes of disc space, to no avail.

What happens: During the capture, at any point between 300 and 1300 frames captured, the capturing will pause, though the video continues. It then goes for another little while, and again the capture pauses while the video plays, then capture starts again. The result is a clip with neatly removed sections of video. You'd never know that it wasn't an in-camera edit if you weren't watching it happen.

My fear is that it has something to do with the hard-drive speed, but I have captured with this device and others on this computer before, with no such problem.

Is it my camcorder? my genes? Any ideas?