Videos Freezing (Not Weather Related)

I'm having difficulty with videos. Whether I open them in QuickTime, in iMovie, in the Finder (Quick Look) or just about any other app, the video plays for a few seconds and then freezes. I have a new (just a few months) G5 Mac (2.93GHz, 8GB 1066MHz DDR3), and can't imagine that I'm overloading it. Sometimes the audio continues, even after the video has frozen.
I want to do some editing in iMovie, and can't keep the videos playing long enough to do the editing.
I've tried to interpret what is happening on the computer using Activity Monitor, but I'm not sure if there's anything there using enough processing to stop the videos. I'm not sure how to troubleshoot this in order to make my inquiry more specific.
Any Ideas?
Thanks.
Lindy

You have a lot of RAM. Did you add it yourself or did you order it that way?
If you added some, what brand is it please?
How much free space is left on your hard drive and what size is it?
I think it would pay to do some basic repairs on your system also.
Try using Disk Utility to do a Disk Repair, as shown in this link, while booted up on your install disk.
You could have some directory corruption. Let us know what errors Disk Utility reports and if DU was able to repair them.
After that Repair Permissions.
I would do all of the above once a month.
 DALE
p.s. It would help us, so we can advise you correctly, if you would fill in your Mac's specs. in My Settings over on the right, near your name and under the logout choice please with the correct Mac. ->>>>>Over on the right side->>>>
Include the amount of RAM, processor size, and size of hard drive, and what OS you are running.
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