Moved from iMovie to Express, viewer question

Hey all-
I made the move to FCE from iMovie HD/iMovie '08, and the first video I wanted to play with shows up choppy when I watch it in real time in the Viewer. When I cut it up and put it in the canvas and render and watch, it's flawless. Maybe this is a newb question, but does the viewer always lag when viewing the video?
Thanks.

I am having a similar problem. I captured DV video in iMovie08 a few days ago but when I import that video into a FCE project it is choppy in the viewer. About every second or so, at a regular beat, it has a slight pause then continues on. If I put it into a sequence it plays fine from there. The captured video also plays fine in Quicktime. I captured the same video again, using FCE this time, and it works fine like that.
I plan on recapturing the video anyway so I guess I don't really care, it is more of a curiosity to me. When capturing video in iMovie I noticed some dropping of frames here and again (but no warning to that effect) and had to do some recaptures. I got a bit disillusioned with its ability to capture. Since I wasn't watching during the entire time, I have no confidence in the quality of the captures I made. These dropped frames are, I think, a different problem than the one above about stuttering video.

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