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    Allocating RAM for FCP X

    Posted by Alex Minas on March 14, 2013 at 7:20 pm

    Does anyone know if there is a way to get FCP X to use more RAM for rendering/transcoding/compressing?
    Every time I am doing so, I check my activity monitor and it says maximum it is using 2GB of memory and there is about 8 gigs of RAM labeled as Inactive. Anything would help!

    System:
    OS X 10.6.8
    Mac Pro 1,1
    2 X 2.66 Dual-Core Intel Xeon
    16 GB 667 MHz DDR FB-DIMM

    Alex Minas replied 13 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Rafael Amador

    March 15, 2013 at 2:21 am

    Since long time RAM allocation is automatic in Mac OS.
    Anyway, more RAM would help for RT performance, but not for rendering/transcoding/compressing.
    For those taskst you need CPU/GPU.
    rafael

  • Alex Minas

    March 21, 2013 at 8:10 pm

    Thanks for responding!

    After extensive research, I found that getting a solid state drive would actually help out with that (though this is merely a theory until I actually try it).

    I know it’s a hassle to upgrade the CPU, so that will be my last resort.

    Thanks again.

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