Picture freeze on clip playback

I'm new with Mac OS and i have a brandnew iMac and a new Canon HF10 HD camera.
IMovie 08 Ver.7.1.4 was the only way i found to import the video clips.
When i try to play the imported video clips the picture i frozen after 2 seconds and the sound
stops after 3-4 seconds. The progress bar still continues working. I have the same bahavior when i stop the playback with the spacebar and than continue with the playback.
I use PAL 25fps with iMovie. I have the same problem when i try to play the clips using the Quicktime player as the clips are stored as .mov files. Has anyone encountered the same problems and nows a workaround?

Found the reason for the problem.
I moved the video files from the NAS-Server to the local harddisk and now it works.

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