Purchasing Equipment

[simon_crowe]

Hi all, looking for some advice on what equipment to purchase that would suit my needs.

I'm looking at buying one of the latest Macbook Pros with thunderbolt. I want to be able to stream reasonably good HD video on livestream, using Procaster (or something else if its better).

I have a Panasonic AF101 and a Sony EX3 which I would like to use. As far as i know they both have the same outputs so it shouldnt make a difference which?

I was looking into the Blackmagic Intensity Extreme but it doesnt look like its fully supported yet by procaster.

I while back I tried my first proper livestream using a Sony HVR-A1E connected directly to a MBP through firewire. It was very hit or miss with the stream starting and I could only get it to start up on the lowest quality preset on Procaster which wasnt very impressive. In fact I had a new MBP and a older MBP and I could only get it to start on the older slower model for some reason.

I need the set up to be able to work through a laptop rather than a tower as there will be some travel involved in future for jobs

Any help or advice would be much appreciated!