Quicktime choppy playback

The Quicktime player works fine with 1080p video in full-screen mode but windowed it's choppy. Perhaps 5 fps for a couple seconds at a time, and 1 frame every three seconds the rest of the time.
CPU usage is 2% user, 4% system
VLC works fine full-screen or windowed.
I tried 32-bit mode. Still no good.
Any ideas?

Dear Ozcanuck
We also have a Sony Bloggie and experience problems with playback in iPhoto. I have found however that if you pay the videos through Slideshow in iPhoto they play a lot better without the choppy playback. You can turn off the background music so that you can here all the audio. It is a bit of a fuss but it saves exporting it and using up more memory etc.
I hope this solves your problem to some degree. it is annoying you can't just click play. It seems to be just affecting the Bloggie as my sisters lumix hd videos play fine with and without the Slideshow.

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restarted, rebooted, re-everythinged
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1. two weeks ago I completed a project with footage from the same camera, on the same computer, with the same drivers, and had no problem, so I have trouble believing it's the Nvidia driver.
2. I did turn off, then on, then off, then on, etc. the GPU acceleration, no effect
3. Again, the same project I completed two weeks ago was from the same external HD (You're right, 2Tb, sorry) and again no problem.
4. I upgraded to Yosemite just a couple of weeks after it came out, long enough ago that I can't remember exactly when, but again have completed many projects since without this problem.
5. I can play the mp4 files on any other program smoothly, VLC, Quicktime, RealPlayer, etc. so it's not the footage.
I went through the forums and tried every suggestion I found, and it seems like there were indeed a lot of issues with choppy playback, and a lot of suggestions on how to fix it. None of the steps put forward have helped, and according to at least one of the forums I've read, that person was unable to find a workable solution. Starting from scratch seems pointless, since I just started this project fresh a few days ago.
I really feel like in the latest update from Adobe something else got screwed up and I have no choice but to live with it until they decide to acknowledge it and fix it.

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SDCone wrote:
Me, too. But as soon as I re-synched the project and moved back, the
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John,
I don't really think it's applicable in this particular situation. I have just switched to PP for FCP-7. All my FCP 7 shows are mastered in ProRes and this last one of course was too and it's the one I had to make a small change in. I didn't see anything in the post you referred me to that suggests that PP cannot/will not play back proRes material.
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Long time reader, first time poster, I'll make this short and sweet. Here are my specs:
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All Media on WD 01 drive...Project, Cache, Preview, Scatch on WD 02 drive...Internal SSD for OS and Apps: Terrible performance
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Recommend you take a look for disc layout & such over at the Tweaker's Page ...
Tweaker's Page ...
http://ppbm7.com/index.php/tweakers-page
Basically they recommend just the program file on the system/OS disc ... and then putting things on other drives as per the needs of the "asset" ... some need very fast connects, a couple only mostly fast connections.
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