Brand new Final Cut Pro freezes

I've installed Final Cut Pro 7 (Academic Edition) on my Macbook Pro 15" with 500 gig memory and running the latest version of Snow Leopard. I haven't even used it yet because I don't have a camera, but getting bored I downloaded a Youtube video of a hummingbird and saved it as a Mpeg4. Once in Final Cut, I dragged it to my canvas and then down to my sequence and a pop up told me that the clip had different clip setting than the sequence and then it asked me if I wanted to change the setting according to the clip. I did so and then color-corrected the footage (which was only thirty seconds long) and it took FIVE minutes for it to render. I understand that it is an HD video, so I wasn't TOO put off by that, but then, once it finished rendering, I wanted to drag my canvas out bigger, so I did so, and it IMMEDIATELY started freezing. The umbrella of death started spinning for atleast five minutes all because I wanted to make the viewer bigger??? That shouldn't be a problem. I eventually had to Hard Reset my entire computer and I opened it again, did the same thing, and the same thing happened. (Also, I'm positive it's Final Cut, only, because the rest of my computer was running perfectly fine). Eventually, I tried to color-correct the clip down on my sequence without changing the clip settings (which resulted in TERRIBLE quality video) and it didn't really freeze as much.
HELP!

You downloaded a clip from YouTube, and took it...in a non-editing codec)...into FCP, and are trying to edit it...and are complaining that FCP doesn't work?
You are using it wrong. You are doing absolutely everything wrong. This is not what you do. FCP doesn't just work with any old Quicktime file you import into it. It is a professional editing application that works with certain editing codecs and camera formats.
Best wait until you get a camera, or someone who shot footage for you with a camera, to start using it.
Shane

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