Suddenly Choppy Footage in FCE.

I've been capturing footage for months with the same settings, etc on my Mac OS X 10.4.7 into FCE from my DVX100a camcorder. Has always worked perfectly, no hitches. Suddenly capturing became choppy & I noticed all my footage that I've saved is also choppy. I accidentally ran my space down to 2 gigs on my harddrive, thought this was the problem, freed up 30 gigs, closed all applications, shut down the computer, rebooted...and still choppy. Any ideas? Defragmenting? I read here that degragging is not a great idea on Macs? Something I've overlooked? If you need more info I'll try to get it but my settings have not changed, and has always worked perfectly. Now I'm perfectly confused. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I've searched forum but no post just like my circumstances, system, etc.

Hi
I've had this happen occasionally. The best solution I've found is to close FCX and reopen it. The reboot seems to fix the problem.
Jonathan

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