trashed file in Edius driving me crazy

[trillium]

I have some video files that somehow got trashed within Edius 6.53. When I try to delete the files after completely deleting the project I get complete system lockups. Presently scanning drive for bad sectors but wondering if someone can give me a tip to delete these files. Tried deleting folder but still locks-up. Any suggestions? Win7 64-bit

[antonsvideo]

go to disk management and see if any drives are marked at risk

they should all have a healthy status and should be less than 80% full

[trillium]

Thanks, my disks are healthy. Having an issue where a file will be playing- no FX, filters, anything, and suddenly the status will go to red for rendering on timeline. I played and edited these files the other day with no problem. Reloaded source files and still had same problem. Then exported audio and combined with original video and things seem to work. Just can't figure this unless when the project crashed it may have trashed files on disk, but that doesn't explain why the source files don't work well either now- Panasonic AVCHD format 29.97 interlaced.

Wondering if my systems files are trashed. Same file locked up VLC too after crash.

had to go into safe mode to delete folder containing these video files. Weird.

[antonsvideo]

in EDIUS help menu, generate a system report and attach it here

[trillium]

think i found problem

I think I found a way to solve the problem. There was a conflict in the project settings. The files were interlace 1920x1080 the project was set to 1280x720 progressive. For some reason Edius would see the need to render whenever I started and stopped the file. After changing the setting to 29.97 upper field things seem to have stabilized. However, I still don't know if this was the solution. I also reconnected all the USB devices keyboard, mouse, Edius key, etc, perhaps one of those was loose. I also found 2 PUP toolbars with Malbytes.

But what was weird the file would be playing perfectly on the timeline until I stopped and started to play again using spacebar. Then the render indication would light-up red.

Been here 12 hours, heading home. Attaching reports though things are working now.

[antonsvideo]

I am concerned about a few things

1. you have a program with no name starting with windows, see attached. go to start, run, type msconfig, go to startup tab and untick the unidentified object and reboot
2. you have some microsoft security program running, see attached, not recommended, I would uninstall it
3. you have 9GB installed memory, this is technically impossible if installing dimm of the same sizes, a must

example: 3x2GB = 6GB, 3x4GB =12GB, 3x8GB=24GB, 4x2GB=8GB,4x4GB=16GB, 4x8GB=32GB etc

[trillium]

The system came with 9-gig of ram, been using it 5 years with no real issues. I will review the other issues you've noted - thanks to Dell for providing this weird array of mem. May have to keep the MS anti-virus because of workplace, but can exclude Edius and reduce realtime protection when editing offline.

Thanks for you assistance and review of system info. I'll know in the next couple of days if MS AV is going to drag me down further. It may be less hampering than the Avast on the system before. This is a 5.5-year old system now, so it's a bit of a legacy farm.

[trillium]

After deleting 2 PUP's identified by Malbytes I don't seem to have the no-name file you were pointing to, not present this morning when I checked, so perhaps it was one of those unwanted toolbars.