Must render every file first????

Hi,
From reading other posts this sounds like it may be a firewire/pci card/ external hard drive issue. I cannot import onto my external hd (which is set up for Mac OS extended) from FCP. I either have to import onto the G5's internal HD then copy onto the external hd or use iMovie to import clips directly to external hd. But now that they are there, when I bring them into a FCP project, they hiccup in the viewer and when I drag them into the timeline, they all have to be rendered first. I have never had that problem. It is already a hassle enough the way I have to get clips onto the external hd, am I stuck with rendering each clip or is there a setting that I must not have right.
Thanks
Dave
PS Each clip plays just fine as a standalone Quicktime File.

Don't capture with iMovie. It saves as a different type of file that FCP does not like.
Make sure your sequence settings match the clips you are putting on there (which will be impossible for files captured in imovie). The biggest cause of having to render every file is sequence settings that don't match the video clips being put on the sequence.
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