How can I speed up FCPX

To all you frustrated FCPX users,
I am a wedding videographer, I made the transiton from final cut studio to FCPX and find it to be an excelent programme. That is until I started to produce a 90 minute complex wedding video with 500+ clips, 10 tracks of music and a substantial amount of colour correction in it. I am working on a 17" mac book pro 2.66gz intel core i7 with 8GB of 1067 MHz DDR3 Ram and a NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 512 MB graphics card. and I am runnig Lion 10.7.2 (11C74)
This is hooked up to an apple 30" cinema display with the Project and Event filles stored on a 1TB Lacie rugged disc via FW800 I have 30GB of disc space available on the laptop.
I have prepared the movie (60hrs work already) and it has become progressively slower the longer the time line gets. I have tried using proxy media and having no other software open at the time in attempt to get some speed up, not to mention endless restarts. The events are HDV1080i50 (25 Mb/s) Linear PCM. (I am ot sure if I should convert the time line to ProRes422? which is the Codec I used in FCP Studio. I have turned off background rendering and the playback is juddering and evey few seconds the spinning ball comes to play, often for up to 30 seconds before it catches up.
I have been watching how the Ram is used and from there being 2gigs free at the start, I add a clip or two and zoom the timeline, nothing like a Colour correction and suddenly there is only 50mb of free ram and the machine speed nosedives to what we used to put up with 10 years ago!!
If anyone has a fix for this, you would be doing me a huge favour. I am already last with this movie. I was considdering going and buying a mac book pro with Thunderbolt and seeing if that was the problem.
This software is, as it says, a Pro aplication, so surely it should cope with a full length movie?
Philip

I don't know whether this will help, but I have always reckoned that the less you have on the system hard drive, the better your editing app will work.
You say you have got 30GB free but it depends on the size of the HD and how fragmented it is.
I have always suggested never filling a system drive more that 75% and I personally feel uneasy if mine gets above 50% full.
If you have been using the system drive for a year or so it may also be fragmented. OS X is supposed to automatically defragment but it doesn't do it very well according to the many articles that have been published on the web.
You can always test the amount of fragmentation by using an app like
The easiest and safest way to reduce the fragmentation is to copy as much as possible to another drive, delete the originals of the files you copied and then copy back the files which will now be fairly unfragmented.
Another thing that could cause problems with pro-apps like legacy FCP was upgrading the OS from Leopard to SL or SL to Lion etc.
Legacy FCP did not always like it and many pros would erase and do a fresh install of a new OS.
This took time but often saved heartaches later on.
I don't know whether FCP X will be affected in the same way but every year or so it is a good idea to return your computer to its "as new" condition if you can.
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