[Jeff Kirby]

I’m not sure why either. I primarily used it to edit hockey footage. When I output footage that wasn’t altered in any way, just clipped and placed on the timeline, it would stutter or drop a frame at the fast moving parts, like where the camera pans with the puck being shot, or when two guys hit each other.

I was using a 2-year old MacBook Pro with 2 GB ram, 128 mb video card, etc, and it was working perfectly.

I upgraded to the new MacBook Pro with 4 GB ram, and 512 mb video card, and suddenly it started to stutter 9 times out of 10. I’ve used both a 2 TB G-Raid drive hooked up via firewire 800. It has a 7200 rpm HD.

I’ve also used a 1.5 TB OWC drive hooked up with FW800 and it’s a 7200 rpm HD.

I even played some of the footage directly off the MacBook Pro hard drive to see if it was a FW problem with my external drives, and that did not help.