Capturing with HD but monitoring Firewire

I'm just about to start a job being shot on HD Cam but don't want to spend £1000 on an HD to SD converter to play on a regular TV.
If I digitise at 1080p and edit in a DV PAL sequence (rendering obvioulsy) will it play out of my firewire as any other DV PAL project?

Why capture as DV PAL and do an offline edit, that will save you a lot of render time. Then capture as HDCam and finish your Online from there.
K
Oh, to your original question, it should work, but you are looking at a lot of rendering.

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