Files missing & audio breakup

Seems everything is hitting me today, suddenly I get a "No Vram" available. I have a relatively new iMac (2011) and restarted and vram issue was gone but I lost files in a project, both audio and video and can't seem to reconnect with them. Audio is narration track and continues to break up every few seconds.

Do you have audio if you play them using QT Player?
Is there an audio wave form if you drop them into a timeline?
What are the properties of the files (using get info from within QT player)? ie does that show an audio component?
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