Final Cut Studio 1 on new MacPro?

I have a client with FCS 1 on an older Mac (G4). He has the capital budget for a new MacPro, but not for the FCS 2 software upgrade. I can't think of a reason why FCS 1 wouldn't work on the new MacPro, but wanted to check here to see if anyone had direct experience.
Thanks!

I'm not 100% on this but Ive heard that you can have some issues running FCS1 on an intel based mac. At the time of FCS1 macs were not intel, then when they realeased the new macs with intel they offered a deal where you could upgrade to a newer version of final cut for $400 or $500 (don't quote me on the price) but then when FCS2 came out they stopped doing this, and fcs2 was compatable with the intel macs as well. I would look into this before making the purchase, you may want to wait until you can afford the upgrade on the software as well
-Lil B

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