Tapeless workflow with FCP 5 and Canon XL H1

Is it possible to establish a tapeless workflow with FCP 5 and a Canon XL H1 shooting in HD mode?
We have to shoot many days of lectures and want to skip the import of the footage. The firestore FS-C can only record up to 7.5 hours in HD but we don't have the time to empty it overnight so it can be available the next day...
We can connect a couple of 500 GB lacie to a 17" Macbook Pro and wanted to use FCP to live capture from the camera. Is that possible?
Or did anyone try to do that with the Canon Console software (windows only) and then import its stream in FCP?
Thanks

No time to unload a drive when you have all night? Why would that be? Isn't this just a big drag and drop? Can't let it start and go to dinner?
If you shoot HDV you should also record it to tape becuase disk drives can fail etc during the shoot.
You can capture live from the camera's FW port but again I'd shoot tape as well... use capture now but also use the device control that works with that camera to get the TC thru too. (probably FW HDV basic)
The camera also has an uncompressed output but that would take a capture card and fast disk array (faster than FW for sure) to capture the uncompressed HD.
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