IMovie projects choppy with 23" display

I just added a 23" Cinema Display. I've noticed that the playback quality of my iMovie projects have become choppy since the monitor was installed. Audio also drops out in spots. (Actual video and audio is okay; problem only exists in playback.) Projects play fine on other computers. Has anyone else experienced this? If so, is there a solution?

You may want to set your iMovie Preferences, under their 'Playback' tab, to Standard, rather that High or Highest.
Cinema displays are designed to give the best possible visuals, but that can use up a lot of Mac processor effort, whereas you really want the effort to go into correctly grabbing all the relevant bits from your hard disc, both video and audio, and making do with 'acceptable' presentation on the monitor.
(..Though one would have thought that a dual processor 2GHz should be able to keep up with handling the video + audio files and being able to provide a good screen display..)
Karl may give some relevant advice, as he has a cinema display.
Maybe post this query with his name in the Topic, e.g; "Karl - 23" Cinema Display choppy", for example..?

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