I'd like to create a grid of up to 100 different clips (it's one of those musical performances where everyone records at home using a clicktrack and then the clips all gets composited into a grid). I've done this successfully with 39 videos on 19.12.3, but now I'm looking at 100 videos (and upgraded to 20.04.1 on Ubuntu 20.04).

The way I did this previously was to use crop, scale, and tilt to scale and then place each individual clip, and that worked well enough for my purposes (though if there's a better way to do it, I'm all ears). With 39 videos, I scaled each to 14% and everything fit. With 100 clips, I'll need to scale to 10% -- but anytime a clip is scaled below 12%, it doesn't render properly. I guess at 12% I could get about 64 clips... (it would be great if I could scale at 12.5% for that matter and have everything exactly scale, but I can only scale in whole numbers -- another reason I wonder if there's a better way that I'm missing).

Is there another way to get this to work?

Just tried to place 3 clips with a scale of 9 - 10 - 12 an rndering is ok (latest build for Windows) .. maybe can be an issue realted to the use of 64 video tracks?

Interesting -- it seems to be platform-dependent. I am importing only a single clip to start, and on my Linux system even the single clip fails to render when scaled to 11 or below. But I dug up a Windows 10 virtual machine and tried it there, and the same clip rendered fine all the way down to (at least) 5%.

But my workhorse machine big enough to handle the full project is Linux; I can't really move platforms to work around this.