Is there a big difference between the 2.6 and the 3.0?

I am getting a macpro, and will be doing video editing with final cut. Should I spend extra for the 2 3G processors or will the 2.6 prove to be enough power for editing with final cut?

Yes the 2.66GHz is powerful enough for video editing.
Be aware that while the 3GHz is "13% more powerful" for the most part you won't notice a difference as this difference will only come into play when your cores are being saturated which they won't be. While you're editing the difference will actually be in the low single digits if anything at all.
Now, when it comes to encoding and high continuous processing the difference will be noticed. Again, not rhe full 13% as this would require a full multi-threaded efficiency of FCS and Mac OS X which there isn't. You will get around a 8-10% difference though. So, on a 10 hour encode you're looking to save less than an hour on that time. Whether that's worth the difference to you I have no idea.
If you budget is tight then you're better off spending that money on the ATi X1900 XT, RAM and hard drives.

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