Happy new year to all....

I'd be interested to hear what the latest best practice is with regards to memory capacity. I have just upgraded my HP z820 Avid workstation (specs below) from 32GB to 96GB RAM - where should I expect to see performance/stability gains? (Sometimes experienced rendering lokups when handling multiple effects on multiple tracks). What's the general concensus amongst other editors? (I am guessing that a system tht is already running SSD OS drive) will get more out of increased RAM than faster CPU's?

Adrian Redmond:

(I am guessing that a system tht is already running SSD OS drive) will get more out of increased RAM than faster CPU's?

Speaking from my own personal experience, the only time I've had a noticable increase in capability was with a faster processor. 

I've noticed better playback of multicam material with more RAM. But I've also noticed worse lol. You should be able to increase the size of your media cache video memory allocation so I guess that may help with longer or more complicated sequences.

Andi

Following my upgrade from 32GB to 96GB and changing the media cache from 8gb to 50gb I do notice a great improvement on timeline performance - scrolling left and right is quicker and smoother. According to the manual one has to be careful not to set too large a cache, expecially if you use several applications at once - but that was written back in 2013 when 16GB og ram was a lot and 32GB was almost a dreamed of luxury, where multitasking could easily run one out of RAM.

I am definately planning on maxing out the RAM on this workstation to achieve even better performance - the z820 will handle a max of 512GB Ram with 2 CPU's, which should almost enable MC to cache the entire timeline and still leave space for the occasional extra application on the side. Might help complex multi track FX editing too?