Make the Canvas window lower quality?

This is obviously be a newbie question so please dont flame me. I am editing using the Animation codec and its quite heave for my CPU so how can I lower the canvas (preview) screen's quality so that I can view it without dropping frames constantly?
In After Effects, I can easily set it to low quality and edit without any issues but I havent figured out how to do it in Final Cut Pro 6 yet.

That isn't the issue. The issue is that the ANIMATION codec is a high data rate codec. The canvas isn't your problem, the problem is the hard drive speed. You would need a 5-8 drive RAID to play this codec back without dropping frames.
You cannot compare AE to FCP...they play back differently. AE renders on the RAM before it plays back. FCP doesn't do this.
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