Live video on imovie

Behind camera and trying to see it live on mac book pro laptop and not through i sight. Camera is a sony handycam hdr-hci. can get live on i sight but want to see on laptop while looking into camera and doing 30 second spot. using imovie. thanks to anyone who can help. have camera hooked up through firewall wire.

with my combo (Sony TRV14, iMHD):
connect camera via firewire (a firewall is something... different)
switch camera to record mode (not Play)
switch in iM to "camera"
the remote-knobs are greyed-out (play, ff, rew)
BUT
simply hit on "import"
iM starts creating a new clip
even greyed-out, you are allowed to hit "stop" to stop import
easy does it
just try

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