FinalCut Express, "dropped frames warning" How do I turn off unlimited RT?

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For the last week I've been trying to learn the program with the FCE book from Apple and have been uploading footage from the enclosed CD and adding transitions and filters without a glitch.
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This is all about the preview and playback experience whilst editing and does not limit the quality of anything on a final render.
Final Cut takes rendered video segments and applies certain things dynamically and does stuff like overlaying audio tracks (and adjusting all of their volumes) on the fly whilst you are previewing.
Give Final Cut more work to do and you will eventually hit some resource constraint on your system. You can either ignore this message or set some limitations on the quality that you expect during preview of this kind so that you get a smooth experience or you can turn off the warning and get noticable performance degradation.
You need to decide if you can afford stutter etc. whilst performing an edit session or if you can sacrifice some video or audio quality (that will return on export) or if you need beefier hardware. Its just a matter of choice but I agree the warning looks nasty.
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In the middle of playing back what I was working on, I suddenly got an error messege that said, "Warning: Dropped Frames." It then gave me a list of options to decrease the chance of it happening again, which included turning off "Unlimited RT."
What's Unlimited RT? My computer is brand new and it was my first session using Final Cut Express. Sorry I'm a newbie, thanks for the help!

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I have the MBP in signature and after making a very short sequence with 2 small clips (obtained by the same master clip, from/on my SSD, that is 640x480 / 10fps with AppleOPEN DML codec) between which I insert a 3D video transition (cross zoom), if I press the space bar for preview (with unlimited RT setting + dynamic setting for playback and frame quality) I get the dropped frame warning as soon as the playhead reaches the 3D transition in the playtime....Is this normal even with my very new MBP specs???
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Go to the menu Final Cut Pro > User Preferences and on the General Pane, uncheck the Report dropped frames during playback box. Then click OK.
The warning only alerts you that FCP can't call up and display the frames fast enough to play in real time, so it is dropping frames - during playback.
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