Why do my imported clips playback really weird?

I imported all these clips from my camera and when I played them back they were all sped up but the audio was normal. I am new to final cut and I would really appreciate the help(:

This camera shoots 720p in two video formats, AVCHD Lite and MPEG, neither of which is supported by FCE. The MPEG material, if that's what you shot, can probably be converted using MPEG Streamclip. The AVCHD Lite format can be converted using Voltaic, but I understand it's pretty slow. You need to convert the media to QuickTime using the Apple Intermediate Codec at 1280x720 at 29.97fps with 48k uncompressed audio.

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What is your system configuration: include your OS version & iMovie version.
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jlplasterer wrote:
What am I doing wrong? I'm working off internal storage and 1 firewire drive. I've tried moving the clips off the internal over to the firewire storage before importing, and I've tried keeping them on the internal. All this talk of RT playback on FCP with various formats is great, but I can't get 1 stream of imported material to play back at all.
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Certain formats - especially what we call delivery formats (Sorenson Video 3, H.264, MPEG-4) - will not play in realtime on many systems, due in part to lack of horsepower from the playback machine (your computer) and/or bandwidth from the storage device (your hard drive or disks). There are other codecs that fall into this category (non-real time playback) but since your audio is 22 kHz, it sounds like heavily compressed, delivery codec files are what you're working with.
FCP 6's Mixed Format Timeline can require substantial horsepower and bandwidth, depending on the codecs/frame sizes involved, so one trick might be to lower the setting for Playback Quality and Frame Rate in the RT settings in your Timeline.

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For crashing and hanging, this FAQ Entry might prove very useful: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/792580?tstart=0
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