HV20 + pcmcia hdmi capture?

[vj_jasper]

hi all, am new here, and here is my first question: are there any reasonably priced hdmi capture cards that will fit a macbook pro? i guess it would need to be a pcmcia card (if macbook pros support that), or a firewire card.

i am very excited about the "Intensity" hdmi capture card (pci) for only $200, but i would really like it to be portable, so i truly could capture raw HD footage by streaming direct through the HV20's HDMI output, into the card's HDMI input, and then into the macbook pro, running FCP i guess, if that can handle the amount of info flowing in.

just like the pro's.. for a couple of hundred dollars :)

[Postmaster]

I sow some external boxes that can hold a PCI card and you can plug in that boxes to your laptop. They made for graphic cards but who knows, they may work for the Intensity too.

I got a small rugged computer where the Intensity lives. Usualy I have lots a cables and electricity at the set anyhow, so there is no need for a laptop.

Frank

[vj_jasper]

nice idea, i was hoping there might be such a solution, although surely there will be a PCMCIA or firewire version of the Intensity in '08..

i am only on a macbook dualcore 1.83 ghz at present.
not quite sure of the Macbook Pro's specs.. i know it is possible to put a matrox triple head2go card in the Macbook Pro; i wonder if that could be replaced by the Intensity?

anyway, its all very exciting, and i am very encouraged by the fact that you are already working with an Intensity on the set.

being a VJ, i am fairly mobile, depends on what i am doing.. video session could happen anywhere at anytime, so i gotta have portable gear.

what an amazing new breakthrough.. the ability to capture uncompressed HD with a sub-$1000 camera like the HV20 (or sony HDR-SR1). i should not say "with" so much as "via", because the video signal travels through the lens, but is then captured on the computer hard drive.

[vj_jasper]

i presumed the Macbook Pro's would have a pcmcia slot, for sure. seems they don't.. its a new thing called an express 34.. also referred to as a PCI express.

the Intensity is called a PCI express too, although after my initial excitement at this discovery, there seems to be three or four different versions of a PCI express card?