I'm intrigued to know where it says the member number is optional, as both
the html and pdf indicate it as required (position and value are optional).
I've always put one in, so maybe it works without it and I just didn't know
that.

Anyway, I think you are simply running out of memory. Series are imported
as a whole, so there must be room for every item to fit from each file. The
advantage of series imports is that you can find the min-max of the entire
series which can set ranges for colormaps, etc. So if you cannot load the
whole series, you may have to run a preprocessing net that opens each
series member one at a time, derives the min and max and stores it in a
temporary value (see the Help on GetGlobal-SetGlobal). Then after you have
these values, you can open each file for processing, again, one member at a
time, process it, colorize it, etc. and write out an image file for
animating with another program, like imageMagick or Quicktime or whatever
you have. If you look at Import parameters, you see that you can specify
which member(s) to open. These numbers can be driven by the Sequencer to
automate the process.

Or buy more memory. Open the Message Window and choose Commands>Show Memory
Use to get a handle on how much memory is being consumed as you run DX.
(You have to do it manually each time you want to know). Try stripping down
your series file to contain only 3-4 members, load it, examine memory. Then
add more members to the file, Reset Server to clear the cached imported
file, run DX again, etc. At some point (some number of members), you'll see
that available memory has been exceeded during the Import.

Chris Pelkie
Vice President/Scientific Visualization Producer
Conceptual Reality Presentations, Inc.
30 West Meadow Drive
Ithaca, NY 14850
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