How much RAM should I get for My 2013 Mac pro?

I am buying a Mac Pro on behalf of my production company. I am getting half payment up front to buy gera and the other half in a month or two, I am looking at the 8 Core Model, with Dual D700's, and 256GB PCIE Hard Drive but not sure if to go 32GB RAM or 64GB RAM. I dont want to break the bank more than I half to, plus for now I am manily using 1080p or at most some 4k here and there. I just dont want to waste another 800 dollars on 32GB RAM more now, when I can wait until I get my other half of my salary for the TV show Im working on.

Which Adobe software are you using? Premiere Pro CC and After Effects CC? Anything else?
How do you use the software? What kind of workflow?
What kind of files do you edit? How big are they?
This queston is best posted in the specific product forums where the users of the software can give more specific tailored advice.

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Hello,
Sounds like an odd question and maybe it is, so apologies i am utterly Newbie here.
I am running a i7 5930 with 64 gig's of DDR4, typically i am using 70% CPU but the RAM is seldom reaching over 30% usage? Is this odd, am i not applying the software setting correctly?
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I've been searching for and reading web pages and white papers put out by Adobe all afternoon and can't find anything suggesting that large amounts of RAM specifically benefits Premiere users.
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How much Ram do I need? (getting a new laptop, help me please!)
Todd Kopriva, Adobe staff, says "16GB is plenty" for Premiere.
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To make any 'good' recommendations it would be helpful to know what you are editing - DV, SD, HD? That is a big factor in determining specifications.
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*Strip size*
should be => 128K, I would use 256K. More importaint is cluster size. The default is 8 K which is good for the operating system plus programs as over 50% of the files are =< than 8K. For large files (is dot VOB can be 1 gig) it is not the best. When you write a large file each clustter contains a pointer to the next cluster that is to be read. I used 32K, or 64 K (at work so not sure) cluster size for my disk containing Pitures and video. The size of the file allocation table is also reduced by using the larger cluster size.
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<a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://">http://www.manifest-tech.com/mediapc/pc_syshd.htm
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http://forums.creativecow.net/applefinalcutbasics?view=s
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I recently purchased a 13" MacBook Pro. It is a mid-2012 model. It currently has 4 GB. I connect it to an external monitor which makes it easier for me to use while editing. I always have the application sit and load with the spinning ball icon. I use FCPX, Photoshop, and After Effects on a daily basis. I was wondering if the RAM increase would help me create my videos more efficently. Thanks for all the comments and help ahead of time!

You should benefit from adding more RAM. How much is hard to say but at least to 8 GBs. You might know more if you observed your memory usage in Activity Monitor.
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