Playback on USB Camcorder LCD

Hi,
May i know do i posible to playback on my consumer Camcorder's LCD as a monitoring while editing? How to set it up?
Thanks!!!!;)

Oh...Sad to heard it...
I've try out via FIREWIRE with my JVC GZ-HD7...seems it's not work so...is it because of the VTR playback of Hard Drive?
FCP only reconize the Firewire camcorder which is HDV (tape) base?
Any other simple, easy and budget way to run my playback on HDTV thorugh component or RCA signal?
Thanks so much!!!

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Additionally the matter has to be put into perspective. Of course a source video looks clearer on a mac if it is displayed in it's original interlaced format on a frame by frame basis, but this isn't how one would watch video. interlaced video looks dreadful on a computer monitor and needs to be de-interlaced to be watched, additionally you would never watch a video frame by frame and so comparing video in this way is somewhat pointless. There is a quality difference on some macs but if the video is compared in a realistic way the difference is quite small and often unnoticeable.
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I could download the videos into iMovie and then import them into Final Cut Express, but if iMovie throws away every other horizontal line when it downloads videos this will result in lower quality videos (i.e., that's why I bought Final Cut Express).
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Whatever I use I just get an image from the inbuilt camera on the mac....not what I am after.
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<OK>
Well that is not OK since they don't directly send you there to make the changes and after searching for 30 minutes you wonder WHY it should be made such a mystery. WHY not just tell us what to do and lead us there? We are not interested in reprograming like the windows boys - that is why we use APPLE but Apple have left us with the "searching forums" option. You have better things to do with your time rather than write the Apple instructions. But there is NO other option, rather than try combination after combination after combination after combination until you have no more time and look for something which has a chance of success - like stopping the river flowing outside past the house. Managed to do this four times in the last month - why is this easier than connecting the camera to the computer? Because you can see what is going on.
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