32 GB ram for final cut pro (and Afetr Effects)? Is it worth?

Hello,
and now it's the RAM time...
I have to decide how much ram to buy, I work with Final Cut Pro, After Effects, Photoshop and, I hope, soon with Cinema 4D; this is the probabily Mac Pro configuration:
- Two 2.8GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
- Mac Pro RAID card
- 4 SAS internal hard disks 300GB 15,000-rpm
I'd like to expand it to 32 GB of ram, has it a sense or is it too much? Can 32GB RAM paradoxicalally slow it down? I heard too much RAM could be a problem...
Thanks a lot,
Stefano Bianchi

Silal wrote:
Hi
FCP will not take advantage of more that 4 GB: Maximum memory usage in Final Cut Pro is 2.5 GB. Other FCS apps like Motion and Color will thanks you more RAM, but IMHO 32 GB is really too much, what means I cannot state you'll notice the difference.
More RAM will help ypu on working with all your apps open at the same time making the system more responsive, but as I told you I think you can do it with less that 32 GB.
Hope that helps !
Alberto
But Leopard on an Intel is 64 bit, right? So the article would not apply or has FCP not been updated for a 64 bit memory space?
Robert:-)

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