Computer is sluggish when using iMovie and Aperture.

I have a mac pro dual quad core 2.26 ghz intel xeon with 12 gb 1066 mhz ddr3 of memory.
When I share my imovue slide shows to itunes I have to shut down imovie at least once and sometimes twice.
I keep getting a "not enough memory" error mesage that instructs me to shut down imovie.
Would adding mor ram solve this issue?
Best Regards,
Paul

CS5 is one app that can benefit from 24GB for most users, and even 48GB if you need to push and stress things, but there too the processor GHz matter and 3.3GHz would help (4-cores) while save to disk or export is single threaded for most part.
I'd defer to the test but where and type of drive that Aperture uses, and system, that does matter, and there are times when editing will create a lot of temp files and shadow copies that you may not see.
Using memory as a primary scratch area (system and application data cace) but I doubt iMovie has been uptimized fully.
http://www.macperformanceguide.com ought to have some tips and ideas

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