HDV hardware for MBP

Which capture cards & converter boxes for HD/HDV projects are compatible with a MBP?

You are limited by bandwidth and what kind of drives you can connect to a laptop. DVCPRO HD and HDV are low bandwidth (DVCPRO HD is 100mbps and HDV is 35mbps) and can easily use firewire 800 drives for storage.
XDCAM (high end XDCAM) and other higher end formats of HD require from 160-300 mbps, and that is something you can only get with RAID drives...SATA and fibrechannel. You cannot connect those to a laptop. SATA Raid adapters are out there I hear, but then the processor might be the issue...you won't get many real time effects and renders will take a while.
Glad to help with the HVX stuff. It took me 4 months of studying it and 4 days of shooting before we got the workflow down. And there is still a lot about the workflow that I am still learning.
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