How can I use images from my live Craft Site when developing locally I'd like to sync the database of a live site to my local site for development, but don't want to download all the images and files. Is there an .htaccess that could look for the files locally, and on 404 look to the live site? What are the implications for image transforms etc?

There seem to be some solutions available for WordPress and Drupal, but has anyone had any experience with this with Craft?

Thanks
You could set up your assets through Amazon S3 or another remote service then that wouldn't be a problem.

Alternatively you will need to download all the assets locally if you have relative paths /uploads/images/banners/banner1.jpg.

Though maybe another option is to set the path to include the domain then you can probably get the files from the server (so in your markup you would see the image would be linking to http://www.yousite.com/uploads/images/banners/banner1.jpg