Stutter playing back HD from Canon 5d Mark II

Hi. I'm trying to edit full HD (.MOV) files shot on a Canon 5D Mark II with Premiere Pro CS4, only the stutter is terrible. CPU usage shoots up to around 90%, and the process is pretty impossible to manage. I'm using:
Windows XP
Intel Core 2 Quad, Q8200 @2.33Ghz
4GB of Ram
NVIDIA Geforce 9400 GT display card
Seagate ST31000
Would appreciate any feedback on where the bottleneck might be.
Thanks.

Welcome to the forum.
With H.264 material, the biggest bottleneck is the CPU. With other types of footage, the biggest bottleneck is the I/O sub-system.
I would speculate that you CPU, though a Quad, is just not adequate for the task. Also, do you only have a single physical HDD? That will not do for video editing, and especially HD material. A 3x physical HDD is about the minimum.
Also, what is your Project/Sequence Preset? That can have an impact on playability of the Timeline, if things do not match.
Good luck,
Hunt

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