Will adding more Ram help?

My iMac is 2010. Over the last 3 - 4 months its started to slow down a bit. I realize sometimes thats just the way things are but I am wondering if there is anything I can do to help. It seems that everything is a bit slow on startup/wakeup. It takes about 5-10 seconds for things to get rolling, that doesn't bother me that much, I can handle it, just pointing out that is different from 3-4 months ago. Once things get rolling its fine.
iPhoto on occasion slows down, but again for the most part its ok. It's iMovie that really seems to lag. I realize of the things I am using iMovie is probably the most "powerful" program I am using , dealing with all the video files, but it has become very tedious to use. I've tried to "clean up" things a bit and that doesn't seem to really be helping. I am wondering if adding more RAM would help. Currently I have 4 slots filled with 2 GB of Ram. I think thinking of upgrading 2 of those to 4GB.
I guess I am wondering if that would make a difference? I know in theory adding more "juice" will make things run faster but for the most part the computer does run ok on its own, its iMovie that lags. It it simplky because its a more powerful program and adding more juice will help. Or do we think something else is going on?
OS X Version 10.9.1
3.06 Ghs Intel Core i3
8 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
229 GB of 500GB avaliable storage space on the harddrive.
Any thoughts?

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However since next year I plan to return to school to
get a Masters in Ministry, I may need more RAM. From
2001-2005 while I working on my undergrad I used a
Performa 6360 which had 136MB's of RAM + RAM Doubler.
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without a major slowdown. I cannot do this with
Tiger, and since I plan to get the OSX version of
Dave to access other PC's on the network (since
whatever is built int OSX pales in comparison to
Dave). On my Performa 6360 Dave was a necessity,
since the campus dumped using Macs in 2002. I
remember my 1st year (2001-2002) I could access a
number of Macs on the Appletalk network at the time.
But after the Fall 2002 semester the mac got dumped.
Some students still used Macs, but fewer and fewer
used them in the 2003-2005 years.
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of RAM although me to run some 20-30m apps at one
time (like I could on the Performa) or was OSX Tiger
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