Video Stutter while importing.

When I import video from a camera, I get this little stutter/pause every so often. It seems like whenever there is fast movement on the video it happens. I recently upgraded to Leopard. I installed over the top of 10.4.9. I'm not sure if this is why it's happening. Has anyone else experienced this?

Hi
My first thoughts.
• Free space on Start-Up (Mac OS) hard disk less than 25GB (much less than)
• More than 50 audio clips - Medicine. Mix audio down to one clip
• Use of external hard disk - USB/USB2 and may be wrongly formatted
Lot's of video-clips - is not the origin - I've had movie projects up to and more of 6 hours
(Copied back to VHS-tapes - No stutter) (Maraton Vacation movies - nobody can stand to view)
(Ponder why)
Yours Bengt W

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HP-Pavilion RK570AA-ABA m7760n
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FairPlay 1.4.10
iPod Updater Library 8.1d19
CD Driver 2.1.0.1
CD Driver DLL 2.1.1.1
Apple Mobile Device 2.5.0.31
Apple Mobile Device Driver 1.43.0.0
Bonjour 1.0.6.2 (118.5)
iTunes Serial Number 7CB4EF0CC560CC5A
Current user is an administrator.
The current local date and time is 2009-06-01 19:57:12.
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