This is a sense check really. I have been having problems with a project I am working on stitching together an old holiday video.
The original video elements are rather large rips from DVDs. Each DVD is around 4GB and there are four of them.
The project was running fine up to the end of the second DVD rip. I had be trimming and adding transitions etc. However at that point some strange things started happening. The project wouldn't let me place anything on track 2, saying there was already something there which meant it couldn't be placed. However I could place things on other tracks. Then shortly afterwards the software would freeze up and become unresponsive if I tried to make any further edits.
My PC has 8GB of RAM so I am assuming this might be a memory issue, so what I have decided to do is export what I have and then reload it into a new project to continue editing. Is this the right approach? And am I right in thinking that export as a MAGIX file would be the best option in terms of quality?
Thanks for any advice you can give.