Final Cut Pro 7 Mountain Lion Playback Freeze FIX

Hello,
I'm still running Final Cut Pro 7 on Mountain Lion, and I ran into a problem where the program would freeze whenver I tried to play in both the canvas and the viewer. I seem to have fixed it on my computer, and wanted to share my fix in case anyone else ran into the same problem. I tried deleting both Final Cut and Quicktime's preferences, but that didn't fix anything. Then, I happened to look at the console, and discovered the following message right around the time that it froze:
8/7/12 11:11:53.244 AM Final Cut Pro[702]: Address book access is denied for executable at path: /Applications/Final Cut Pro.app/Contents/MacOS/Final Cut Pro
I thought that was odd, since I don't see any reason that FCP would need access to my address book, but I decided to go check in System Preferences -> Security and Privacy -> Privacy -> Contacts. I discovered that FCP was already listed there, and the checkbox for "Allow these apps to access your contacts" was unchecked, so I decided to check it. And then it worked! It no longer froze during playback. I have no idea how that relates to playback, but it definitely fixed it for me, and so I hope that maybe this well help someone else who is having trouble.

I've seen this issue with my mac pro 2008:
While the programs still work fine, one fundamental change that Apple has made in Mountain Lion is to push more of the responsibility for displaying the image on the computer monitor to the GPU of the graphics card. Previously these responsibilities were shared with the CPU. Therefore, if you have an older graphics card (even if it is fully compatible with FCPX, as ours are), FCP6/7 has a difficult time playing back 1080 video in the Canvas window (at any size), without breaking up when there is some degree of movement in the video image.The screen cannot refresh quickly enough to draw the video image without showing horizontal banding and some minor digital garbage.

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