[Al Skierkiewicz]

Ryan,
I am not sure what you are trying to do. If you have some computer animation on your computer that you want to port out as video, you are going to have to expect problems but there are a variety of converters that are made to do that. If you are trying to edit from a video file, then you need a file converter to take the original file to whatever format you need for your editing. If you are trying to generate a firewire output stream from an internal file, there is software for that too. (It usually comes with the DV Cam so that you can transfer, edit and return to the camera.) Most editing software or video playback software allows you to choose to port out to a video monitor if the hardware is correctly installed.
Remember that the DV Cam is an embedded digital source (stream) as it is recorded. The import software that makes use of the firewire connection, talks to the camera through the firewire and imports and converts the digital video as it is played back on the camera. (Essentially, yet another file conversion.) To complicate matters more, standard definition TV signals, whether digital or analog are sometimes known as 640i or roughly 640x480 interlace, 30 frames/sec. So any conversion from the computer screen to video must conform to this and the result is lowering of resolution(somewhat out of focus), video stutter, etc. High priced software can correct all of the problems but the secret word(s) are "high priced". I know that our schools use a variety of products running on Apple Computers, which allow file conversions and editing in one package with firewire import and output. I think it is called Imovie.