FCPX-Intensity pro stuttering playback on a Mac Pro. Why?

I have FCPX running on a Lion partition on a Mac Pro, early 2008, Intensity Pro card. On the same machine, I have run FCP7 on a Snow Leopard Partition for years and dozends of documentaries, with an output smooth as silk and a wonderful HD preview on an external HD lcd tv. When I try the same from FCPX/Lion, the playback is stuttering, as if one progressive frame any three would play. The clips are coming from a Canon camcorder that FCP7 always misinterpreted giving a wrong field dominance (none instead of lower first). I could override that using the "item properties" on FCP7 so that I could export a perfect IMX or DVCAM 50i file for the satelite tv channel I produce for, but the preview on the lcd tv was great even if I did not fiddle with that setting, so I am not sure that the problem could be in the wrong field dominance. On FCPX the clips are labeled as 25P, I override that and change to lower first, as well as the project settings to 1080i, 25i, but the problem remains, so that the preview on the external tv is not acceptable, while the clip shows fine in the canvas. Both Lion, FCPX and Blackmagic drivers are the latest version. What can be wrong??
Thank you
Fabrizio D'Agnano
Rome, Italy

Sorry, it is actually "upper", not "lower".
I only shoot in 1080i because I don't like the flickering effect I get with 25P in pans or fast moving shots. When I log and transfer from FCP7, the clips are marked as "field dominance"="none" in the browser window or either in the "item properties". It is wrong, as the cam setting is "1080i". If I output a PAL signal to an external CRT tv via a firewire adapter or if I build a dvd or a DVCAM or IMX PAL master, it will clearly show the wrong fields order. When I output the preview to an HD tv the fields dominance problem won't show at all. So right after I logged and transferred clips from the card, I select all of them in the browser, go to the "field dominance" column, and set them to "upper first". Now when I drag them on the PAL timeline everything is good. If I modify the dominance after the clip has been dragged onto the timeline, the problem will remain, so, just to make sure I did not overlook any of the clips, I select all the video tracks in the timeline, control click or right click, choose "item properties" and then check and in case modify the settings for the wrong clips. Differently from what happens if I modify them in the browser, this will actually affect the clips on the timeline.
Regards
Fabrizio

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