It’s the same external drive i was using on the MBP. Also, when I first got this computer, it was playing fine. It’s all of sudden just getting worse and worse.
“How was your 1080p ProRes material generated? Is it possible it was 4k H264 and you’re using ProRes proxies at 1080p? Maybe the FCPX viewer is not switch to proxy and it’s trying to edit 4k H264? That would be slow on a MBA.”
How do I determine this? I’m sorry but I don’t know much about this so just need more explanation. We shot the footage on a Panasonic GH4