Do I meet Final Cut Express Graphic Card Reqts?

According to Apple, one needs an AGP or PCI Express Quarts Extreme graphics card for Final Cut Express HD. Does that mean my NVIDIA GeForce 6600 on the G5 and NVIDIA GeForce4 MX on the G4 don't cut it? Am I wasting my money buying Final Cut Express HD?

Hi(Bonjour)!
I own a G5 with a GeForce nvidia 6600 256 meg VRAM, and FCE hd works very well. I dont know the GeForce 4 MX on your G4, but quartz Extreme run on GeForce2 MX with a minium of 16 meg VRAM:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/quartzextreme/
Michel Boissonneault

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I'm just not sure what is going on - that error is what Mac Mini's and others with onboard video have when they try to run FCE/FCP, and there is a workaround mentioned here:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=1609878
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Can I run FCE without the Graphics card??

Requirement:
An AGP or PCI Express graphics card compatible with Quartz Extreme or an Intel GMA integrated graphics processor in MacBook or Mac mini
What I have(I have no PC or PCI cards under the System Profiler):
ATI Radeon 9200:
Chipset Model: ATY,RV280
Type: Display
Bus: AGP
VRAM (Total): 32 MB
Vendor: ATI (0x1002)
Device ID: 0x5962
Revision ID: 0x0001
ROM Revision: 113-xxxxx-116
Displays:
WDE LCM-17v2:
Resolution: 1280 x 1024 @ 75 Hz
Depth: 32-bit Color
Core Image: Not Supported
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
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Hi everyone.
I just bought a 2nd hand 2008 Mac Pro 3.1 with the ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT graphics card.
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but we got a problem
when we got to load the program we get an error
saying that we need an APG video card to use the final cut express HD ver 3
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