We have the identical VCR plugged into a G4 and iMovie 3 and have had no problems with video or sound. It generally works quite well. Can you take it back to where you got it and do an exchange? Beyond that I have no advice. Richard Quoting lloyds <lloyds at vermontel.net>: > I just bought a JVC HR_DVS3U dual tape recorder, thinking that it would > save wear on my TRV-900 and be really convenient at copying from mini DV > tapes to VHS tapes and act as an interface to a TV monitor. It has a > firewire control socket which works well from iMovie 3 on my dual G4 > mac, so far as obeying instructions, but the sound has skips in it, both > as it plays directly in iMovie and as it records into iMovie. I have > yet to try recording onto a VHS tape, but I wonder if anybody has ideas > whether this skipping is fixible. The TRV900 works just fine on the > same tape, so I guess it's not the cable. > > BobLL >