Running PC CS4 suite on Snow Leopard using Parallels

Hi.  I have a gig coming up where I will need to do some overnight video editing while on location at the end of the day for the next day's show.  I would like to purchase a Macbook with Snow Leopard for this purpose (up to now I've been strickly PC for all Adobe products).  The problem I'm facing is that I have a PC desktop with CS4 Production Premium on it, and I don't want to have to loose my PC license to convert it to a Mac to run on the Macbook because I would not be able to activate it back on the PC.
So my question is if I were to get a Macbook (latest one), and install the PC version of CS4 while in Parallels, will the performance be there?  I understand that running natively in the Mac OS would be optimum but I'm asking if I were to run it all in emulation mode (temporarily), would I be ok?  I just need to know if anyone is doing this currently and is experiencing issues and what they are.  Can I load up Premiere Pro CS4, edit video, send to Encore, burn DVD all in Parallels I guess is my main concern.
Thanks.

If you're going to do video editing and stuff, I think I would shy away from the Parallels approach and just go all out and create a separate Windows partition. Boot Camp automates this process, asking how much of the HD you want to allocate to it, etc then asking for your Windows Installer disc.
At that point you have a fully functional Windows box but you can also reboot into Mac OS X when you're not using Windows apps. (It is also possible to boot the Windows partition with Parallels if you just need brief access to it.)
At startup you can either choose to boot into Windows or OS X. Just hold down option key to see your choices.

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