Thanks for the quick replies, flavio and Frans. I tried again with no luck. Here's what I tried:
1) Increased the the "Number of index files to keep" from 100 to 300. 2) Launch cinelerra from a terminal so I can see why it crashes 3) From the file menu select "Load files..." 4) Select all my mpg video files (164 total). 5) Select "Create new resources only" and click okay 6) Watch my system-monitor for the next 5min. Free physical RAM quickly goes to zero. After that, free swap slowly declines to zero. 7) Cinelerra dies with the console message: "Killed". I'm fairly certain that the OS took pitty and killed it as opposed to Cinelerra crashing. Am I doing something wrong? By the way, my Cinelerra version is 2.1CV.
