Problems with Blackmagic footage going to black

Hello, I am experiencing a problem with my footage dropping out or going to black. It is random. Sometimes the same piece of footage works other times not. Sometimes restarting is enough, but not always. I've trashed the prefs and adjusted memory options, but the problem persists.
I am on a 2x2.93 GHz Quad_Core Intel MacOS 10.6.4
with 12GB 1066MHz DDR3 of Memory
After Effects CS5 v10.0.1.19
And I'm running off a server.
Is anyone else having this problem?
J

Start up in safe boot:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1455
This forces a disk check called fsck -fy it is similar to repair disk on the disk utility. Once it has started up to your log in screen restart normally and see if that helps

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<font color="blue"The thumbnails are normal size (widescreen), as they always have been, but the preview screen has cropped the footage to make it fit in my widescreen project. So I'm losing some of my shot.</font>
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