• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  G5/FCP Memory

  Posted by Gregg on July 24, 2006 at 10:38 pm

  This question may have been asked and answered in the past, but searching the posts found nothing.
  I remember reading a post or a FAQ somewhere that stated that if you load more that 4 gigs of ram into a G5, FCP could not do anything with it. The most it can address is 4 gigs. Is this still the case?

  Jeff Carpenter replied 19 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Jeff Carpenter

  July 25, 2006 at 1:03 am

  I am pretty sure that is still the case.

  But keep in mind that OSX itself uses RAM. And if you have Photoshop, Motion, DVD Studio Pro, and iCal all open at the same time, they are all using up RAM too. Sure, you can shut everything down and ONLY run Final Cut while editing, but that gets a litte tiresome after awhile when trying to move stuff between programs.

  So there IS a benefit to buying more RAM than Final Cut can handle. Of course, your budget can have more say about that than you do. We can’t all afford 16 GB of RAM. I’ve been very happy with 4.5 GB of RAM on my system, and I usually have Final Cut along with 3 or 4 other programs running at the same time.

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