Final Cut Pro on a 12 inch Powerbook?

I just got my 1.5 12 inch powerbook with a super drive.
I'm having fun with imove but thinking about giving Final Cut Pro or express a try. Does the powerbook have the umph to run them well?
I been thinking about swapping out for a gig of ram also if that would help.
P.S.
I don't realy get frustrated with longer render times.

I have the same notebook and run FCP 5 adequately on the installed 512 RAM. But, like you, I am swapping the 256 stick for 1GB this weekend because I encounter the occasional dropped frame. Most of the editing I do has involved short films less than 5 minutes in length. Dropping a frame is frustrating, but does not mean I can't edit a simple movie fairly quickly. If you plan to edit home movies maybe closer to 30 minutes in length, I highly recommend buying the 1GB stick. FCP will run better, and so will most everything else on your PowerBook. The prices are slowly dropping, with an average online price of 200-pin DDR333 (PC 2700) RAM for around $160. You can of course buy it from the Apple Store for more than double that.
If you're only planning on editing the occasional home movie, FC Express might be the better solution than FCP 5. It offers less features, sure. But depending on how much you plan to edit video, you may not need everything FCP 5 offers. I've been editing video and making short films for three years, and I still don't use, let alone know, every function of FCP. You should be able to check out the programs at the Apple Store to compare the two. If not, you may be able to try them at a university campus computer lab.

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CaptM...
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The only way that would work out is if you ran exactly the versions that were made for old PowerBooks. Anything newer may require Intel and not run, or will strain the poor old G4 CPU.
Your needs have to be modest, too, because the problem with older music and video software is that they are not current as far as formats and codecs for the Web. If you want to output H.264, the current standard for YouTube/Flash video, older software may not support it, and in addition, H.264 is processor-intensive and is tailor-made for today's multi-core, 2+ GHz processors. It will overwhelm a G4. A PowerBook G4 can barely play YouTube videos.
More perspective: The PowerBooks worked great for miniDV format editing. In other words, 480i SD/standard definition video in use from the late 1990s to the late 2000s. If that is all you want to do, edit tape from an old miniDV camera to SD output, then OK.
But if you want to edit today's HD video, whether 720p from a snapshot camera/iPhone 4 or 1080p from a DSLR, the PowerBook and the software for it will either not recognize AVCHD/H.264, or it will slow the PowerBook to a dead crawl.
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