Final Cut Express 2 on a Upgraded B&W powermac

Will Final Cut Express 2 work on a B&W powermac upgraded to a G4 650 MHZ machine with a ATI Radeon 9200 128MB DDR PCI Video Card installed?
Thank you

Dennis
Here's the Apple specs:
http://www.apple.com/finalcutexpress/specs.html
Al

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. . . . but you will need to have Mavericks installed to use FCP X.
Should you feel the urge to give it a try, this website has a free 2 hour course of video tutorials that will get you off to a flying start.
http://www.izzyvideo.com/final-cut-pro-x-tutorial/
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Quite right Ian.
Probably should have mentioned it.
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The offer only lasts until the end of December and after that it'll probably go back up to $699.
Also I wanted to point out that you're in the Final Cut Express forum asking about Final Cut Pro. Not a huge deal but in the future you might get better results asking Final Cut Pro related questions in the Final Cut Pro forum.
i know that if you hit esc will run but it is to slow my hp 2.0ghz is faster
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Hi Flore
This a huge debate. There are very few advantages to the new AVCHD camera's and the vgery long list of negative aspects of AVCHD camera's outweighs any usefulness of them. They are designed for Grandad to pick up and shoot good quality pictures and not for editing.
I have posted below the wiki address for AVCHD, please read the page. It is very important you do read it. It explains in depth about AVCHD.
I feel the is no real place for the hard drive based AVCHD camera. There is a place for a mini-dv tape based camera.
Life will be very hard if you go the Hard-drive camera route. Stay with tape.
Tape is cheap, hardy and easy to move around. Hard drives not so!!!
Take some time to read the following wikipedia page...PLEASE READ THIS PAGE!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVCHD
You will see that AVCHD is not all the bee's knee's.
I personally hope it dies an extremly painful agonising drawnout death.
AVCHD has no place in the professional domain.
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