Final Cut 7 stuttering playing prores 422 LT

Specs:
Mac Pro early 2008
Dual quad core 2.8
8GB RAM
Lion 10.7.5
Now that that's out of the way...
This is really frustrating. I have a project that's about 1TB in total, all in prores 422 (LT). From the time I launch FCP, I have about 5 or 10 minutes, give or take, before every clip starts skipping and stuttering to the point of unusability. I've checked everything I can think of. I'm not taxing my RAM, CPU, or HD. My scratch drive is a 2TB internal drive dedicated to scratch, so there's nothing else using it. I've tried shutting off everything else on my system but that doesn't help either. The only way I've been able to fix it is to restart FCP, but then it all just happens again. I've tried copying clips to other HDs when it starts happening, but I get the same result regardless. When it's working, I'm able to play a 2 angle multiclip perfectly, with the HD transferring at about 45 MB/s. Single clips usually are about 23 MB/s, but when it starts stuttering, Activity Monitor says it barely is able to go above 15.
Any ideas? This is driving me nuts.

I don't know the make of the camera at the moment, I'll find out today and update that later. Here's a picture of my sequence settings:
I finished cutting this piece in Premiere (with no issues whatsoever) and exported an XML so I can prepare an FCP sequence to deliver. The SECOND I imported the XML back into FCP, it was stuttering all over the place as bad as it ever has.
I have no idea what to think here. I can play higher bit rate video in FCP without issues, but this particular format/codec is just a nightmare. I think I can also rule out the camera because I tried taking other video from another project and transcoding it to match these settings and it gave me the same issues.

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I copied the audio (any audio will do) underneath the jerky one and it stopped jerking around.
I opened the two test files in QuickTime 7 and 10 and NONE of them were Jerky... This issue seems to pertain to FCPx only....
So if any of you export from AE to ProRes4444 and the guy on the FCPx station gets agitated because of the jerkiness,
before you blame adobe (like I did) tell him to just copy some sound underneath the sound-less video clip. That will take care of the problem,
untill Apple fixes the problem ;-)

Glad you found a solution, AtonMusic! Did you bring the issue up to Apple?

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rw-media12 wrote:
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Editing in FCP 6.0.2
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Export a 30 minute film with a DVCPro HD 720p60 timeline shot in 720p 23.98fps as uncompressed and as high resolution as possible for transfer to a Beta-SP for big screen projection.
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First, i want say a thanks for all guys who help us here. Thank you very much. Much appreciate.
Now, problem...
My Final Cut works perfect sice a starded used 2005, never i have a one problem.
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When a copy any files between macs over a network the final cut doesn`t play in the sequence. nothing happening. but if i stop copy in the finder, it ok, everything back normal again.
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I hope i understand you right.
when you copy a file from one network to another sometimes the file paths are lost. Like if you have a drive called FCP HDD on one cpu and FCP HDD3 on another. The original path is associated to the copied files on FCP HDD drive and not the FCP HDD3 drive so a path would be lost there.
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