Can anyone tell me why this project is sticking in the timeline?

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I have been using FCP for a while now with great success.
Generally I record on my handycam which is a mini DVD format. then I process the clips though mpg streamclip to DV pal and they become ".mov" files. (I do this to demux the clips audio from the video)
Then I have no problems working in the time line.
But recently I introduced a new camera to the mix.
It is a head cam, A 1.3 Mpixel CMOS Senor, video and audio, 640x480 at 30 frames per second. It records onto a micro SD card in avi format.
Now when I drop these files into the time line I experience a lot of "Choking" and "Pausing" from the computer.
It seems that the hard drive cannot handle the footage. Even when I place the playhead over the normal ".mov" files it struggles.
And even when I make a quicktime movie from the sequence I have the same previewing trouble in quicktime or any other media player for that matter.
My Tech specs are as follows.
A 13 month old Mac Book Pro with 4GB ram, External USB hard drive for the clips. (but it's the same when clips are stored on the desktop).
So do I need to convert these avi files through mpeg streamclip to ".mov" files first as I do with my other files, in order to be able to work with them?

As this is essentially the same subject as your topic from yesterday, please try to keep the discussion all in the same thread: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2050214&tstart=0
You also have new responses there.

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