Final cut studio 2 on mac mini

has anyone tried it on a mac mini?
i want to get a new mac pro but since the design is about to change sooner or later i prefer to get a desktop in the meantime.
does it run on a mac mini with that slow graphic card? what about color or motion?
thanks
mac mini Mac OS X (10.4.10)

http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/specs.html
"A Macintosh computer with a 1.25GHz or faster PowerPC G4, PowerPC G5, Intel Core Duo, or Intel Xeon processor
1GB of RAM
An AGP or PCI Express Quartz Extreme graphics card (Final Cut Studio is not compatible with integrated Intel graphics processors)
A display with 1024-by-768 resolution or higher."
That is the requirement to install all of the applications. Motion and definitely Color won't work.
You might be able to run DVD SP and FCP 6, however.
But then what do you capture video footage to?

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