FCP7 PAUSES EVERY TIME BEFORE PLAYBACK!!!

Hey guys,
My FCP7 just recently started acting a little weird. Almost every time I press play it will pause for a few seconds as it spins the color wheel and then start playing. The weird thing is that it does that not just when I press play but pretty much all the time - for example, if I take a 1 min break and come back into final cut, no matter where I click it gives me the color wheel. If I switch to another application and then back to FCP - I get the color wheel....
It didn't do that before!! I haven't changed anything in my workflow, I'm always using prores files, I have plenty of space on my hard drives. I even tried uninstalling some additional plugins that I thought might be slowing it down but still nothing.
Has anyone ever had that happen to them before? What did you do to fix it? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks

I've experienced this kind of behavior in the past on older systems and it had more to do very long sequences and not enough processing power.
The "take a break" issue makes me wonder whether maybe the OS is struggling as well. You might want to open Activity Monitor and see what's happening as you go back to work.
I'd start with normal "system hygiene" (repair permissions, run Disk Warrior, restart system, maybe get into Single User mode and fsck -fy) in case you've left the system sleeping between sessions.
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