Clips freezing in the Viewer

Lately when I am editing, the clips keep freezing in the Viewer. I can hear the audio but the video is frozen. I know that if this happens in the sequence, I can put it on Safe RT and change things from dynamic to medium or low. But in the Viewer, I can't figure out why. My computer has around 30GB of space. Could it be because there isn't enough space on my external drive (a G-Tech 2TB). There is only 3GB available. If I clear out some space, will that help?
Thanks.

MollyDB wrote:
Any other thoughts about what the problem could be now that I have more space?
Molly,
What kind of clips and sequence? Are the clips h.264 by any chance? If so, transcode them to Pro Res 422 or Pro Res LT.
For clip properties, select a clip in the Timeline and hit command 9. For sequence settings, click make the Timeline window active by clicking in the window and hitting command 0. Screen shots of the settings are most helpful.
The free space advice, however, still stands.
Russ

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