Does FCP 5.1 work on a G4?

Does FCP 5.1 Suite work on a G4 with OS X 10.3.9?
i have a G4 that im going to put as a secondary computer, and i would like to put FCP 5.1 with DVDSP 4,

There's two things you should be searching for regarding this matter:
The first is the technical specifications of Final Cut Pro 5.1 found here:
http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/specs.html?finalcutpro
The second (and more importantly) is the Software License Agreement found here:
http://images.apple.com/legal/sla/finalcutstudio51.pdf
As you can see by the license agreement you can only instal FCP 5.1 on one desktop computer and one laptop. Given this fact I hope the G4 you want to install the software on is a laptop or else even though you might be able to install the software on it technically, unfortunately you won't be able to legally. Unless, of course, you uninstall it first from your G5.

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