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- WinXP - all updates (fresh install)
- Edius 4.61
- no firewall or antivir
- no 3rd party VSTs (only SoundSoap) or plugins
- no 3rd party codecs
- editing in SD
- RT Raptor
- Tyan mainboard
- 2x AMD CPU
> Hardware setup worked fine for the last two years.
I have been using Edius since V2 and V4 from when it came out. All worked fine until about 3 weeks ago.
- At first some external TGAs, JPGs and TIFFs were not displayed.
- Then not even frame grabs created within Edius (TGA) were not displayed.
- Then the whole edit file crashed. Error 0x8000ffff "catastophic failure"
- Once I got the error message: zfloat buffer.... uninstall the plugin... (didn't say which plugin)
Due to the nature of my projects, I have carried this edit file from 2001 and it has been constantly growing. Now I have hundreds or possibly thousands of image files - externally and internally created - on the timeline.
All video files are CanopusDV created in ProCoder. I work heavily with sequences and now might have around 1500 sequences.
Ok, I though, maybe the system is old and crusty. I re-installed the system completely. Re-installed Edius, installed fresh QT. Doesn't help. Still, when I try to restore offline clips at some stage it crashes.
Could be a corrupted file and I am trying to narrow it down. Not easy but I am in the process of doing that.
QUESTIONS:
1) It seems to me that it is not about a corrupted media file,
a) because it worked before,
b) because the crashes on restoring offline clips happen after a certain amount of clips where restopred (seemingly) not after a certain folder/file was imported.
2) Could it be that I have hit an undocumented file maximum or sequence maximum?
3) Would defragmentation help? Status on my 11 HDDs is between 11% and 55%. I always learned that editing systems should not be defragmented!?
Any ideas anyone?
Thank you!
Zuma
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