FCP 6 performance slow

I am pretty new to FCP, so I have been dealing with a lot of issues. Basically, I am running through the tutorial DVD and trying to work along with it. I can't seem to get real time playback, as FCP gives me the "Warning - Dropped Frames" dialog. I have a Mac Pro 2.8 8-core with 6GB of RAM, a 300gig stock hard drive and another 250 gig hard drive, with two ATI Radeon HD 2600 cards. I know I got the basic Mac Pro, but what kind of machine do you need to get the performance the dude in the tutorial video is getting? Am I doing something wrong, or is that just all I can expect out of this machine?

Hi David, thanks for helping. First off, I am not using any tutorial footage, I am just watching tutorials on the DVD that came with FC Studio. I am using my own footage. When I first started, I didn't know about FCP editing codec, so I couldn't even watch my footage in the player without it dropping frames because the footage was from iMovie's .dv codec. So I converted to "DV/DVCPRO - NTSC" with Quicktime, which played very smoothly when bringing into FCP. So I thought I was set. Did a little basic editing and it seemed to work. But now I'm trying to do the scaled second video layer (like a picture-in-picture) from the tutorial, and my machine drops frames. What am I doing wrong?

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