G4 and FCE 4

Please help !
I am running a G4 Sawtooth with 1.2 Mhz processor, 2 G Ram, 120 HD and a Radeon 9800 Graphics card. Despite the fact that the software states a requirement for a 1.25 Mhz processor can I upgrade from FCE 2 to FCE 4?
Is there a work-around for this if the requirement (1.25 Mhz processor)is rigid?
If not are there any other solutions for movie editing software beyond iMovie for the Mac.
Any help and guidance would be much appreciated.
Thank you,
HmL

There is workaround. The 1.25G requirement is in the application. Short of hacking the application you can't run it on this computer.

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