Older video footage needs to be rendered before viewing

I've imported some old SD footage I shot years ago into a new project (NTSC 48khz).
When playing back the footage in the viewer the video stops and starts inconsistently. When I drag the clip into the timeline, I get the red render bar. There aren't any effects or transitions in the timeline, just a straight-up video clip. Why would I need to render this? And is there a way to make it so I don't have to render each clip to see them in the viewer?
thanks

Thanks to Tom Wolsky, this problem has been solved.
The original footage was captured by iMovie (back in 03, so an old version of iMovie). Apparently it captured both video and audio together not in separate tracks, so FCE had to render the footage into separate tracks in order to show the video/audio correctly.
I used QuickTime pro to convert the files into an appropriate format. If anyone's interested, I found a great Automator script for doing batch processing of movies: http://automatoractions.com/files/compressquicktimeusingmostrecentsettings1.0.ht ml

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