Encore For Mac Crashing When Project Size actually becomes Larger then the Setup

Question

I've been an Encore user for years on the PC and have recently started using CS4 on the Mac.  I have been having  some issues with Encore crashing, and I think I have narrowed it down to the following.
I encode all of my M2V files for Standard DVD outside of Encore using Episode.  Encore seems to work just fine for me usually until I get toward the end of the project, then it will crash.   The funny thing is, if it crashes once and I'm able to bring the project back up into Encore, I can build a disk image to my hard drive and then simply use Toast to make all of my copies to DVD.  I may not ever be able to bring that project back into Encore to re-edit, but the DVD that I burn from the disk image works just fine.
I believe Encore is crashing once I import assets as a timeline (I usually import my assets directly to a new timeline) which end up being close to or exceeding the disk size of the project settings, which is always standard DVD.   If I import the asset first before creating a timeline with it and actually add it to the project, it does't crash.  But, once I add the content to the project by making a timeline out of it and apparently if it exceeds the size of the standard DVD, Encore will then crash.  Does this make sense?  Why would it crash, it didn't work that way in Encore on the PC, if I had more content then would fit onto a DVD it simply told me that when I checked the build before building it.  This is crazy!
Thanks!

Answer 1

Hi Jeff, thanks.
Yes, I have done this.  I thought I explained that in my post.  Okay, well I guess I need to officially report this to Adobe, you would think they already knew it, unless it's an isolated case to my machine, which it could be, that's what I'm trying to find out if anyone can replicate the problem.  I Suppose Windows users aren't experiencing this problem, or maybe just don't realize the problem exist. 
I might add, I first discovered this problem when went to encode motion buttons which is usually my last step before building the project.  If the encode turns the project into one that exceeded the expected project disk capacity,  it will usually crash the application, but sometimes I can go ahead and write  a disk image before exiting, but I can never open the project again after that.  If I didn't have a backup, all of the time spent on that project is wasted, and the project files becomes corrupt and will not open.
One last note of interest.  I did a test project where I identified the project as a double sided DVD thinking it would be a good workaround if id didn't crash once I imported more than 4.7 GB of data into active timelines. But that didn't work.  Now I can of course  import as many M2V compliant source clips as I want to and it doesn't crash Encore, but as I convert an asset one at a time into a timeline, *** soon as it exceeds the project disk size, Encore crashes.  Thankfully, I can still open the project, but the project from then on out seems to be very touch and go and Encore then want to crash by simply double clicking too fast or whatever!  Not sure is this later problem is actually related to my initial problem or not.
Thanks for your feedback.
Ron