Very Confused about Editing HD on a MacBook Pro!?!?!

-Hello
I just recently bought a MacBook Pro Intel core 2 duo like 6months Ago. I Then Went ahead and bought FCP 5.1.4 I was Importing Footage from a Camera's recorder and Everything was working well. All went down hill when I went out and Bought a (JVC-GZ HD7) Harddisk HandCamcorder and Began Recording Major Events... I was shooting(FULL HD 1920/1080)... Just about 2hrs worth of footage was imported into my FCP and THE RAW FOOTAGE TAKES **** NEAR HOURS TO RENDER... And when It plays THE RAW FOOTAGE It lags... what can i do to speed up the process? Some say I need an External Hard Drive, Some say I need more Ram, I SAY I NEED AN EXACT answer....
I NEED HELP AS SOON AS POSIBLE... Thanx...

Hey Shane,
Well, Listen My Team Of Editors have gotten together and Followed your Instructions that you had sent me to Transfer the TOD files into TS files on the VLC program But I seem to be a little confused with the File/Stream options given. IF you do not mind a Step by Step Procedure would be very Helpfull. At your own convinence of course.
thanx
THis is what was sent to me...
.....Note for Macintosh users using professional non-linear editing systems such as Final Cut Pro, April 28, 2007
If you are using Final Cut Pro or other professional non-linear editing programs on the Mac, you cannot use the camera's native .TOD format, which is basically an MPEG inside the .TOD container. Forget about following JVC's instructions: they are too time-consuming and don't allow batch processing. The easiest conversion method I've found requires two freeware programs: The VLC media player, and MPEG Streamclip, both available on the Apple Website (and elsewhere). You'll first need to use the VLC player to convert the .TOD into a .TS file, which takes seconds (you are only changing the container format to MPEG TS, not actually changing compression). Once you've changed the .TOD file to a .TS file, you can use MPEG Streamclip to change to a variety of file formats that Final Cut Pro can recognize. Of course since you are recompressing the file at this point, expect this to take far longer than the first step.
While you can use a variety of compressions, I use DVCPRO60. Files compressed using DVCPRO60 can be viewed in Final Cut immediately without a need to render. The quality of the final DVC PRO .MOV file seems identical to the original .TOD file.......

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