Clips freeze in viewer

I've looked at a couple of the other threads with this problem and I've tried their solutions, (Trash Prefs, Fit in Window) but the clips still freeze after being played for a few seconds. I have over 32 hours of soccer footage that I collect clips in iMovie (because that is easier and requires less space than importing the whole tape into FCE) Then I import the clips (420 of them) into FCE 2.03 and then want to tweak the in/outs in FCE and then drop to the timeline, but the viewer is sticking! Help! I have all of the clips and the render files and scratch disk files on a huge external firewire hard drive. Is that the problem, or is it a compatibility issue with iMovie and FCE - either way how do I correct the problem?

Hmmm. So many helpful suggestions - Thank You all!
I will try to respond to all of them.
First, I use iMovie to capture the clips, because it seems to be better suited to capturing many short clips (1-5 secs ea) off a long tape (1 hour) - Remember I am getting the highlights and hits (tackles) from a seasons worth of soccer games. There are usually 500+ of these short clips and iMovie automatically assigns a number to them. I then assign a category (Hit, Goal, Defense, Funny, Sad) to the clip on a legal pad so I don't have to stop the tape. Once I have all the clips, I create a folder for each category and then open my iMovie media file and drag each file to it's appropriate folder, this way all of the Hit clips will be in the Hit folder. I then open up FCE and import each folder. Now I have all the clips sorted by category in FCE. Now all I have to do is drag each folder onto the timeline, add music and render. I don't care that it takes long to render - I can go watch tv or eat dinner or sleep - I just don't want to be tied to the keyboard typing in clip names or processing 500 files through quicktime.
I would have edited the in/out points in iMovie had I known that the viewer in FCE wouldn't work. (iMovie has a tendency to plop 1-3 end frames of a capture a clip onto the beginning of the clip and that is all I am usually trying to edit out.) This is also why I don't drag all 500 clips to the iMovie timeline and then export - because this would create ONE movie while I need each clip seperate and named individually for sorting purposes.
I would capture in FCE, but from my experience, it is more suited to long c aptures and isn't as adapted as iMovie to quick "start/stop/rewind a short bit/Start/import/stop import, but keep the camera running and automatically name the clip"
Yes, I upgraded because I am interested in Live Type and I thought that maybe the viewer problem would be fixed.

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