Jerky HD footage playback

New work system with a new 5,1 MacPro running 10.6.4 FCP 6.0.6
Started getting very jerky 1080p playback of clips in the Viewer not happening all the time though. This doesn't affect the clips when they are in the timeline though.

Exactly Mr Frog
I have also had problems wit the Viewer today...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2612742
I can appreciate your views on the sequence preset but when working on a new MacPro and producing 20 & 30sec commercials rendering isn't an issue and as I've mentioned there are other steps in the production line that would be impacted if the export from the timeline was to be a 1920x1080 QT file because I would then have to convert that to my desired format(s) in the rest of the workflow!
There is definitely something going on with the viewer display and how it is displaying clips and even the background viewer (see above thread)
Please note there isn't and has never been a problem with the sequence and playback of the sequence.

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