Dropped frame warning - corrections

I'm a 70 year old novice. When I get the "dropped frame warning" it gives me some suggestions of things I should do to correct the problem. I don't know how to make these corrections:
1. Lower compression data rate
2. Lowering the preference for real-time audio track.
3. Increase the speed of the system and/or disk drives and/or network conn.
Is there some help out there?

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First of all, FCE doesn't support your media. You should really use something like the free [MPEG Streamclip|http://www.squared5.com> to convert it to DV-NTSC with a frame size of 720x480, a frame rate of 29.97, and audio set to Uncompressed Stereo 48kHz. Edit the media in a DV-NTSC sequence within FCE.
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