Mac out of memory!!

My macbook pro is completely out of free memory. I have 15.00 Mb of free memory right now. I was looking around to see the problem and in my activity monitor I discovered 2.2 GB of active memory. All my aplications are closed and I dont know where is my memory. When I restart my computer I have around 2.00 GB of free memory, I open Google Chrome and start using my computer a little bid and suddenly the free memory drops down very fast. What can i do???

A question and an observation from somebody who doesn't use FCP of either flavor. Feel free to ignore the observation, but the answer to the question might help somebody else help you with your problem.
What level of OS X are you running on your Retina MBP? Your profile line says you are running Snow Leopard (10.6.8), but that won't run on a Retina MBP. They came with Lion (10.7.x) at first, they with Mountain Lion (10.8.x).
Reports on how well FCP7 runs on OS X 10.8 are mixed even before you throw the Retina display into the mix, but some Retina MBPs that shipped with 10.7 seem to work better with 10.8. (Mine does.)

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    1.19 GB          Inactive RAM
    1.21 GB          Wired RAM
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