How do I edit HDV material on an extern computer?

Hi.
I´m in a tricky situation, since I moved from Copenhagen, Denmark,to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, without my macpro quadcore, on which all my material for my upcoming movie is on, but would like to access it from Rio. What to do?
It´s all HDV material and I would like to edit it from Rio, accessing the Macpro in Copenhagen from Rio. Is this possible, and what would it take? Xsan, a very fast broadband connection? An extra server?
Any help would be very much appreciated- thanks!

I can't see this working. Accessing any footage over the internet would be too slow to be workable, let alone HD. If an ISP says they offer 8 Mbps, they mean it's theoretically capable of 8 Mbps but you won't get anywhere near that at peak times. You'd need an expensive dedicated line like a T1 or T3 or something. Also, Xsan is really designed for shared storage on a local network.
You seem prepared to shell out money for a server and fast broadband line but really, the cheapest thing to do would be to buy an external hard drive and get someone in Denmark to copy the data onto it for you and ship it out. The second cheapest thing to do would be to get your Mac Pro shipped to Brazil. Anything else would be very expensive and very complicated.
Edit: You could use Remote Desktop of course to control your screen on the Mac Pro but there would be a lot of interface lag. I don't think you could actually use it to edit something.

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