AVCHD Import looks jumpy and skips

Hello,
I used my New Sony AX2000 (little brother to the NX5) and after importing my wedding I noticed on playback screen everything looks jumpy and sort of looks like its skipping during playback. Any time of movement or pan looks horrible yet when played on my camera it looks very very smooth.
Does my Preview window on FCPX just show it this way but the final product will be smooth?
Is it running this way because back ground rendering is still going on?
I never had this issue on previous (HDV) camcorders when importing.
Just wondering why nothing is smooth just sort of like playing back a YouTube video were your internet connection isnt fast enough so your video seems to studder - thats what I'm getting.
Very disaapointed.

Never mind. Once FCP X finishes rendering to 100% the video plays perfect in the preview window.

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