FCP7 General Error working in 720p timeline

Hi,
Ive been using FP7 for years now and just coming across this stupid problem. I created a slideshow using iphoto. I exported the slideshow in HD 720p as its default. I Imported the movie into FCP7 cause i want to add orther stuff to it, other clips of different cameras. When I drag and drop the movie into the timeline is says " do you want to match timeline to clip setting? " Simple stuff I know about this so i say yes. Everything was fine for awhile, then I wanted to put text over the exported iphoto slideshow movie, then it started acting strange. the timeline closed and said " General Error " "Out of memory"
I have loads of memory so that cant be the problem. I stared a new sequence and the timeline setting were standard DV, and i drag and dropped and now its working, but I dont want it to be crappy standard dv .
It just a short movie about my mates and all the tv's now are all 720, 1080 etc.
If this made any sense Id love some advice, greatly appericated.
Sean

Cheers for the info. but it seems to be fine now. in my timeline settings after selecting 720p frame size I just changed the compression to apple pro res 444 HQ. Should that slove the problem also? Its not bringing up that error message anymore and i can move around my timeline

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