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Help loading video to computer

OK..... I bought a Sony Handycam DCR-HC20 and have recorded some video and have been attempting to edit it in Adobe Premiere 6.0. I also bought a firewire notebook card and cable. I connected all of this to my laptop (HP Pavillion zt1145), whenever I attempt to capture the video, the video has all kinds of "square" in it. I took back the firewire card and cable and replaced still the same issue. Any help as to what is going on would be great. I thought it may be the video card, but I wouldn't think it would mess it up, considering I can load the video via the USB and it looks perfect. I thought maybe the Firewire plug-in on the camcorder may be bad, but don't know. I am running Windows XP SP2 with all the current updates. Please Help!!! Thanks

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A problem in the Fire wire connections would presumably affect the quality in a quite severe way: you would get large blocks of wrong color or misplaced DCT blocks, the capture would fail altogether from time to time, or something like that. Check the plug in!! Daniel

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