RAM usage by Final Cut Pro

Depends on what you are doing, if you have several sequences open, lots of footage, then Final Cut will be eating away your ram. Also when trying to play back stuff in RT, the ram will start kicking in.

Don't worry about ram usage, when it needs it, it will use it.

Final Cut Pro uses a maximum of 2.5 gigs of ram for its self because it is a 32 bit app and that's just what Apple says.

 

when you get into color correction and other filters (and put it on unlimited RT) you'll definitely see that number go up.

 

Also, FCP is the final test for showing up poor quality RAM. If the RAM is substandard, even if it passes Apple Hardware Test, Rember and Techtool, it'll crash FCP.

THanks
Trevor
CanadaRAM.com

 

FCP is very good at handling RAM, and it doesn't need alot. But you can change the amount of RAM it can use in FCP<Systempreferences.

 

I am cutting a 1 hour show now.. with Motion 2 and FCP 5.0 open nearly all the time. I just started watching "Menu Meters" 3 days ago.. I have never seen Ram usage go beyond 750mb.. I have 6GB of ram in my dual 2.5 G5..

using OS 10.4.8..

iloveyou

 

I believe Motion will maximize use of your RAM, espscially when doing RAM previews ...