Will this laptop be powerfull enough to capture HDV using On Location?

[Tommy K]

I don't have the laptop in my possession to do a test right now. This is what my friend has available for use. A 2 Ghz AMD Dual Core. I want to use Adobe On Location to transfer recorded HDV tapes 1280x720P to an external USB hard drive in the field. This for file backup only. No editing will be done. I was wondering if the laptop is capable of just capturing HDV .m2t files. Here are the laptops specs.

Toshiba Satellite AMD Turion™ 64 X2 Dual-Core Mobile Technology TL-60
o 2.0 GHz, 1MB L2 Cache, HyperTransport™ Technology @ up to 800Mz

 

[Cassius]

Should be fine, capturing is easy. Pretty much anything can do it. It sounds like you're recording live into the computer, which takes a little more but still should work without an issue. Just cut whenever you can to separate files, so if something does go wrong you don't lose everything.