HD play back returns dropped frames on a 10 second playback w/transition

when playing back a clip in the timeline and I have a transition I get a pop up about dropped frames. I am playing back in HD and I have striped my drives for speed, but still the same thing. I have searched the logs and find no matches. I hope you can view the screen capture. I do know that HD plays a factor but tried the options, any ideas
/Users/lrehklau/Desktop/Screen Capture.tiff

Andy
The original footage is 1080i, cannon xh a1, but having it down convert to 720p-60. The 300x2 raid is 500+ free space, I just started the video.
After sleeping on it, I had a thought, I have a BlackMagic intensity pro capture card. I have it playing back on a 27" screen to see the true quality of HD, Its nice, so I thought that maybe on play back its outputting to the canvas and to through the BM card to the TV. I turned off the the video playback in the video properties and I am now able to play a sequence of clips with transitions without any problem.
Thanks for your response, it helped make me think, now off to tackle the BM card

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