Slow Mac when I Render Particles in Final Cut From Motion

My Mac Pro goes extremely slow when it renders particles, like Fire from Motion. I have 8 core, 2 Gb RM and plenty of hard drive space. Is this normal. Even while typing this question, the words appeared slowly. Also iStat shows that my processors are being used about 75%, and my ram about 1.5 Gb Active of 2Gb

What graphic card do you have? Motion is a GPU + RAM beast !!
Hope that helps !
Alberto

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When I'm done creating title pages etc. in Motion, I export a .mov (using the DV/DVC PRO NTSC setting)file to a folder. I then import the file into Final Cut and add it to my sequence etc.
However, I have noticed that after I import it into Final cut, the colors are flat and the graphics look compressed.
Am I doing something wrong?
Using Final Cut Studio 5.1.4
G5
OS 10.4.9
4.5 Gb
Thanks!

It's true. DV/NTSC isn't very nice to graphics and titles. They're always going to look sharper in Motion. If your final delivery format is DV/DVC PRO, there's no way to avoid that, but it might help to reduce the amount of compression used overall (because you're going to be compressing them again on final export).
By exporting your graphics using the Animation codec at Best Quality, and Millions of Colors+, you can achieve lossless compression (plus preserve transparency), so that when you bring the clip into FCP, it will look like the original (until you render it back to DV/NTSC). By only applying DV compression once at the end, you might be able to save some quality.
(Doing what Adam mentioned will work too, and is probably easier. But it's good to know about the Animation codec as well).

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Interval Since Last Panic Report: 5426204 sec
Panics Since Last Report:          2
Anonymous UUID:                    2DD57DDB-BB42-5614-395A-CA6225BDAFD9
Wed Mar 20 11:36:53 2013
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff801aa43d8e): "a freed zone element has been modified in zone: maps"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-2050.18.24/osfmk/kern/zalloc.c:219
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff81eb0eb950 : 0xffffff801aa1d626
0xffffff81eb0eb9c0 : 0xffffff801aa43d8e
0xffffff81eb0eba00 : 0xffffff801aa435d2
0xffffff81eb0ebae0 : 0xffffff801aa663f7
0xffffff81eb0ebb20 : 0xffffff801aa67398
0xffffff81eb0ebc70 : 0xffffff801aa6887c
0xffffff81eb0ebd20 : 0xffffff801ad5b8fe
0xffffff81eb0ebf50 : 0xffffff801ade182a
0xffffff81eb0ebfb0 : 0xffffff801aaced33
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: launchd
Mac OS version:
Not yet set
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 12.2.0: Sat Aug 25 00:48:52 PDT 2012; root:xnu-2050.18.24~1/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: 69A5853F-375A-3EF4-9247-478FD0247333
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I'd put the original RAM back in, return the Corsair chips for a refund and re-order from one of those two companies.
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/apple/memory/iMac
http://www.crucial.com/

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0 ...lCutPro.Plugins.QTRtEffects 0x061eea90 KGSetQTRtResFile(unsigned char, short*) + 72
1 ...lCutPro.Plugins.QTRtEffects 0x061f5b08 RTEffectComponentRegister() + 96
2 ...lCutPro.Plugins.QTRtEffects 0x061e521c PluginStart + 2028
3 com.apple.FinalCutPro 0x001b23e0 DispatchRegisterMessage(void*, void*) + 104
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