[Greg]

Don’t fret, Hatter. Just make sure that your backups work after you burn them. As an editor myself, I totally understand how frustrating it can be when things don’t fall into place at all and when it seems like the elements are against you. So just perservere. Keep an EDL list of your work and write down all the referenced files that your clips in your timeline are coming from. That way you’ll be extra safe in case stringing and sourcing gets mixed up. Also, save another untouched backup project file of your work that you save to from your original project every once in a while in case your main project file that you’re working on gets corrupted. There’s a chance your database stuff might be getting mixed up after working on something for so long. So you can save your project file to another drive and work on that one every now and then if your computer performance is getting sluggish.

By the way, what editing interface are you using? Final Cut, Avid, Adobe Premiere, Vegas, or even Ulead?