Final cut pro free trail kills my MacBook pro!

I have the late 2008 MacBook Pro will all the requirements this program requires, but it drains my memory down like 2 mb sometimes. Nothing I've read on the Internet has helped so far. Please tell me there is a fix cuz at this point I'm giving up. I add a title or drag and drop anything without delays and the playback is crazy slow. I've imported just one 20 min video from iMovie that is mostly still pics!  PLEASE HELP!!!

With your MacBook Pro, did you get a unit with the dual video processor? A while ago Apple started putting in two different video cards. One was for the mundane everyday stuff and the goal was to save power. On my MBP I have a Nvidia GeForce 9400M, I also have an Nvidia GeForce 9600M GT which is much more robust for graphics power. The VRAM on the 9400 was only 256, with the 9600M GT it was 512. The bigger the GPU and the fast the GPU, the faster the MBP especially with FCP.
You can select the faster processor by going to system preferences and choose higher performance. It will require you to log out and log back in to use the different GPU. Also turn your harddrive to never sleep when you do this and you will see some improvement in speed and lag.
Another thing is to set up your projects on a fast external drive. If you try to keep source files and project files on the MBP drive you are begging for slowness.
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