Perk

Thanks Nat.  Good suggestion!  Not long after I posted my question, I decided to just start over with a clean project and repeat my original process, but making some notations along the way to help with diagnosing the problem.  As luck would have it, I made it all the way through the raw file and was able to create 25 sequences.  At that point as a precautionary move, I saved the project file and then did the File \ Export All Sequences...  I figured if I ran into the problem again, I could now pull in the individual sequence / clip files.  Botton line, problem solved and I'm moving forward.

Greg

I have a raw footage video file about 2hrs in length (11.6Gb) that I’m trying to edit into a DVD with chapters.  I’ve imported the file into the Video File bin.  For sequence 1, I dragged the video file onto the timeline and then split it into 2 clips.  The first clip is roughly the first 5 minutes of footage.  Next, I created an empty sequence, then “cut and pasted” the second clip from sequence 1 into sequence 2.  In sequence 2, I repeated the process of splitting off the first 5 minutes and “cut and pasted” the remainder into Sequence 3. Same process for sequence 4.  When I repeat the process for sequence 5, the program aborts.

I was running 6.24.  I paid the upgrade charge for 6.30, hoping that might resolve the problem, but no.  Is there a limit to the number of sequences?  Is there a better approach to achieve my objective?