Working with Lo-Res Clips

I know you can capture footage lo-res so speed things, then recapture at full res later. Question I have is, many times I take a project with me to work on it at home. This requires the use of the beast-Media Manager. This of course require huge amounts of disk space and then you have to worry about the duped clips on your system.
Can I take a project home (:30 spots) in some sort of offline, lo-res form so I don't have to transport 2 GB around? Then when I get back to the office, reconnect to the original hi-res clips?
Note: most of these projects are more graphics, timing and titles than pure editing.
Thanks.

Well, since you're soliciting opinions...
As much as possible, I would avoid working with online clips in one setup (work) and offline clips at another (home) because you can't really share project files or XML.
Yes, you could conceivably use Media Manager every time you're done at work or at home to uprez/downrez to produce a suitable project file for transport, but I'd argue that's really pressing your luck when it comes to our beloved Media Mangler.
The only solution I would consider viable is to have duplicate media in both places in the same resolution. If a project is 2GB of primarily titles, graphics and whatnot, I'd burn the media to a DVD-R. Of course, I take it you're not attempting that for some particular reason?

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