RED Camera footage is Jumpy in FCP

Hello!
I am working off of an iMac 2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo, with FCP version 6.0.4 (yes its older but I can't afford the newer version just yet). I downloaded the component from the red website in order to view the footage in quicktime and FCP, but its VERY jumpy and skips frames. I am also sourcing the footage from an external hard drive. Ive searched the internet and these forums for a solution to this but didn't find any helpful links. Does anyone know?

That's not entirely true - the fast RAID part - REDCode is highly compressed, so it isn't that demanding on disk bandwidth, however it is extremely CPU intensive. Which is where the stuttering comes from. Even on an 8 core system, without rendering, the CPU has to DeBayer and downcovert on the fly, 4K material to 1920x1080 - it's bound to skip a few frames now and then...
Patrick

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