Final Cut Express Running Slowly

Hi,
I just purchased and installed final cut express 4 on my computer (MacBook Pro, OS 10.5.8), and uploaded some short clips from a sony HD video camera. When I try to play a clip in the viewer, it will run for a few seconds and then pause and the audio continues but the video skips and then eventually just stops. The whole thing just seems to be running very slowly. At first I had used the internal HD ask my 'scratch disk', and then I tried using my lacie firewire external hard drive (although I just went to system preferences and changed the scratch disk there... I'm not confident that it is really using the external hard drive). Any suggestions? I need to get it working ASAP because I've got a school project to do!
Thanks!

Changing the scratch disk now will not move the media. You'll have to move it to the external and reconnect it in the application.

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