Clunky movie

I'm having trouble with a .mov clip and quick time. I drag the movie out of the SD card into a movie folder. When I open it, it starts playing in quick time. When I plug in the SD card, iPhoto opens up too, same problem there. The movie just chugs along with stops and skips but the audio sounds fine, the video is intermittent. I'm using iMacG5, upgraded to Leopard.
The movie plays fine on the recorder (Zi6 Kodak). It also plays well in iMovie HD after I drag it over and it uploads, which takes a long time.
I'm hoping I just have a setting wrong somewhere. I'm frustrated, I've been trying for hours to figure this out.
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QuickTime Player is designed to "drop" frames during playback if the machine can't "keep up" with the data rate of the file. This is what is happening on your machine.
The settings for your camera determine what file dimension and frame rate are used in the capture. The VGA setting would be the lowest data rate because it is the smallest dimension.
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