Does Compressor 4 work with final cut express 3.5?

I have never used Compressor before.
I am currently using Final Cut 3.5 and too deep into various projects to even THINK about moving to FInal Cut X at this point and sacrificing my productivity while I learn it.
But I think I need to learn Compressor for a particular job or two and was wondering if the latest version works with the older FCE.
Thanks
I am running 10.6.8 on a brand new 27" 3.1 Ghz Intel Core i5 with 4 GB of memory.

Russ H wrote:
WHile I'm not 100% certain (this has come up before and It's not convenient to test), I believe that purchasing Compressor will also allow you add additional codecs to your QT library.
Russ
Yes, Compressor adds several codecs, which can also be used in FCE (decoding and encoding using QuickTime Conversion) and in QuickTime player. Most notably these are MPEG-2 and ProRes. The latter is an editing-friendly Intraframe-Codec useful for preprocessing stuff for importing clips to FCE, particularly if it has a different framerate from the FCE project.
I'm also still using FCE 3.5(*) and the "Export using Compressor" menu option remains grayed out, which is a pity, but the new codecs can still be used. I mostly use it to make stuff for DVDs, using my ancient and cumbersome iDVD.
(*) It really works on Lion, provided you have installed it on a previous Mac OS release and then migrated or upgraded to Lion: the installer is a PowerPC program, but the installed program is Universal and works fine and very stable. If you already have Lion, and no older (Snow) Leopard machine, it's going to be more of a challenge, since the Lion kernel no longer supports PowerPC binaries, so Rosetta won't work.
Bernd

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