Can I edit a HD project in SD, then export HD from the original files?

I have a project that has been shot in HDV that, for a couple of reasons, I have to edit on my laptop instead of my rather powerful desktop. As well as it being HDV (1080 50i), it's also going to need lots of effects adding to it. Now, my laptop is pretty good for a laptop, but I know it's not going to be able to handle this - it plays back HDV choppily at the best of times, so this would give it a heart attack.
So I was wondering - would it be possible to take the captured HDV files, export them as SD files (like standard DV Microsoft AVI), which my laptop can handle easily, edit using those files but then, at the end, export the video in 1080 50i from the original captured HDV files (using my desktop if necessary)?
I think I've seen or heard this discussed before, because that's where I got the idea from. So is it possible, and if so, how?

Thanks for the quick response. I've just read through that other thread, thanks for the link. Also thanks for making me realise that what I'm looking for is called proxy editing - if I'd known that, I would have found much more useful information when I first googled for it! I've actually just tried something similar, playing around with the first 30 seconds of my footage. I've exported it as two files - HD.mpeg and SD.avi, created a new project, imported the AVI, did a simple edit, added some lighting effects, saved it, then closed. I then moved the AVI file and reopened the project - of course it told me the file was missing and asked me where it was. I pointed it to HD.mpeg instead of SD.avi and it accepted it - the project is now in HD with the edit and effects intact. That's basically exactly what I wanted, there's just one problem I can foresee - I'll have to edit the 720x576 footage in 1440x1080 sequences, leaving a huge margin around the edges in the sequence monitor. I can live with that by zooming in on it, until I have to crop a shot, then it's going to be tricky to get it scaled and positioned correctly. I'm going to make some kind of guide to overlay it, see how that works out - it should do me for this one project.

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