Rendering every time I drop a clip on the timeline

I'm not sure if this is fixable. I somehow accidentally shot in hdv-sd60p on a jvc. When I captured the clips into fce4 they were in their "native" settings (853x480). Is there any way I'll be able to edit these clips without first having to render them. I've got over 2 hours of footage and the render times will take forever.

You could try converting the clips to DV using MPEG Streamclip, then import the resulting QT DV clips into FCE. In MPEG Streamclip, select Export to QuickTime, then select Compression = "Apple DV/DVCPRO NTSC" with a 720x480 frame size. I don't think that selecting "Other" frame size will work, I suspect it would still require rendering once in FCE.
Alternatives
You could also try using MPEG Streamclip to convert the video to Apple Intermediate Codec, selecting the 1280x720 (HDTV 720p) frame size .
You might look into whether your camcorder can downconvert the video to DV during playback, and recapture the video in FCE using the DV-NTSC easy setup.
Provided one of these 3 techniques works, it will be better & faster than rendering your existing video clips in FCE.

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