Haven't seen any other answers, so I'll suggest that you try any other FireWire ports while all external drives are disconnected. I think some of these devices don't get along with some external drives. If you are trying to put the video on an external drive, you may have to capture it to the internal and then move it later. Shirley On Jan 19, 2006, at 9:17 AM, Walt Bagnara wrote: > > I just got an ADS Pyro AV Link for my Mac and it doesn't seem to be > working. > I've got a VHS VCR attached to the AV/DV converter with RCA to the > video/audio > inputs. A firewire cable to my Mac's front port from the converter. The > converter locks up the firewire bus and isn't recognised by the > computer. > External firewire drives don't show up anymore. Disconecct the Pyro, > and all is > good again. > My config: PowerMac G5, 2.7 gHz dual, I GB RAM. Mac OS 10.4.4, QT 7.0.4