I have been having the perpetual "spinning beachball" problem.

I get the perpetually "spinning beachball" when doing simple tasks in FCP X. It will happen when I try to place play, or move to a different part of the timeline. I tried many things, like resetting the preferences file, and reinstalling. After reinstalling, everything seemed to be working fine, but I was working on a different file. When I went back to the file that was originally having the problems, the problems manifested again. This led me to believe that the problem was that particular file. I looked into the file and it is a whopping 26GB! This leads me to believe I am having problems because the file is so large. Is there a way to compress it but stil have it usable? Please let me know! This has taken up a lot of my time trying to figure out. Thanks!

Where did the file come from?
When you select it in the Event browser, and use the inspector (command-4), what does it say in the "Info" panel? That should tell you the codec/format.
To optimize the media, select it in the Event browser, and in the "File" menu select "Transcode Media..." On the next screen you have options for "optimized media" and "proxy media." Note that you might have already created these when you first imported.
Finally, what kind of computer are you using; be as specific as possible with regards to type, year you bought it, amount of RAM. you can get some of this info from using "About this Mac..." from the apple menu.

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