Will DVD Studio Pro 4 work on dual 1.25 G4?

I need to get a version of DVD Studio Pro to author DVDs but I know it requires 10.4 (or 10.3.9 but you can't buy that) to run. I'm reading all of these horrific posts about how 10.4 is mutilating computers and so forth so I'm a little nervous. I also notice it requires a particular graphics card which I don't think i have. I'm not doing HD so is this card really necessary?
Any help or advise would be greatly appreciated.
Rick

Tech specs at apple's site is best placed to start
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Gary ~
Many thanks for this quick and helpful response. Unfortunately, that uninstaller doesn't seem to work with QT 7.1.2 ... it says it "will remove QuickTime 7.0.1" and when I try it on 7.1.2, which I now have, it tells me "You cannot install this software on this volume. This disk is dimmed because it does not contain an appropriate version of QuickTime."
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