Time lapse laptop setup question

[pixelpusher]

Hello,
I find the time lapse feature in capture quite useful. I'm interested in seeing if a firewire card in a laptop, in the field mated to my Panasonid dvx100 is a viable approach. What recommendations for system minimum requirements would be suggested. All I want to do is take a laptop in the field and capture. Nothing else would take place on the laptop. The captured material would be dumped back to my desktop system. Would I need a complete 2nd license of VT3 to do this, or can I do it under my current license?
Thanks in advance.
Casey

[wvp]

you cannot install the toaster software on a laptop. It requires the toaster card to run, and I don't think you have an "open" PCI slot on your laptop!

[pixelpusher]

I hadn't tried to load the application, but your response doesn't suprise me. What a shame. This simple part of the code would make a great little tool in the field. Although the Panasonic has a time lapse feature, it's quite limited, and very unreliable in final consistency and quality. Other than that a wonderful camera though!
Thanks for your response WVP
Casey
Flying Foto

[ScorpioProd]

I looked into laptop time lapse capture for an important job last year.

My conclusion was that the most stable, safest way to do it was with an Apple PowerBook and some shareware. It could save the DV time lapse perfectly.

The job didn't happen, but it was gonna be for a month inside a nuclear power plant, so stability, reliability and compact size was the most important thing.

I would have captured about two days at a time unattended with an external firewire drive.

[pixelpusher]

Thanks for the follow up. Do you recall what the shareware app was?
Thanks

[ScorpioProd]

Honestly I don't... All I know is my local Apple store was able to punch it up right off the net at the store.