Capturing uncompressed HDCam into MBP

Hi All, this is my first post.
I would like to capture uncompressed HDCam into my MBP.
Would it be possible to do this using a Blackmagic Design Decklink Studio Card (designed for the Mac Pro) and a PCI Express adapter?
If anyone has any ideas other than this I would be grateful to hear them or if you have used the above setup and it worked...
TIA

I'm guessing you'll get a better, more informed response over at the "video production" discussion:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1136
Good luck! Joel.

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If anyone has any ideas other than this I would be grateful to hear them or if you have used the above setup and it worked...
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Thanks for all these replies, I was hoping to use this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cardbusto_ExpressCardAdapter.jpg
( http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Cardbusto_ExpressCardAdapter.jpg )
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