• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  memory usage settings

  Posted by John Crossfield on August 4, 2009 at 9:49 am

  Hi, just added ram to our 2008 oct mac pro, to help boost work on FCP, had 4gb (4x 1gb sticks, 2 in each side) replaced these with 4 x 4gb sticks in same sockets and moved the 4x 1gb stick over to the empty sockets. Under ‘this mac’ it now shows as 20gb ram (phew!!) but when I go into FCP6 settings and try to up the memory usage it remains at 2gb max (100%), I assumed originally that it could only use ram from 1 ram socket (ie with 2gb of the original 4gb installed). How do I get it to access more of the ram??

  This might be a stupid question, I just might be being thick!!

  cheers
  John

  Jeremy Garchow replied 16 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Jeremy Garchow

  August 4, 2009 at 1:14 pm

  Fcp can only access that much ram due to it’s 32bit infrastructure. It will need to be rewritten to 64 bit to take advantage of more RAM.

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