[Manuel Pimentel]

Hey and thanks to both of you,

what he ended up doing (in case anyone else searching like me comes across the same issue) was to give me the files compressed but not in a proxy form, he gave it to me like this

h.264 1920X1080 millions (as Norman suggested)

the size file is almost 3 times as heavy, but it did work, and I will have to use that and edit from an external.

(Speaking of that my computer is old, I do not have a usb 3.0 port, what would you guys do, dump computer files to external and import files to computer or could i simply use the ESATA plug and edit from external.. is it the same?)

I’m not sure what he used to compress it, so I do not want to mislead anyone.

In any case thanks so much for looking into this, a lot of the threads I read and most of the trouble shooting I did before posting had a lot of your comments in them, so it is appreciated.

[Manuel Pimentel]

Hi Norman and thanks for the quick reply,

my head is about to explode, everything says I “Should” be able to play the file, but I Can’t,

at least knowing you cannot play it either eliminates my system or installs as the issue… I even went to Vegas 11 to try it, same issue.

I am heading back to the Camera mans home today (He still has the original uncompressed files) I cannot get the files as they are as its 3 days of shooting and i would need a whole new laptop to even have that kind of space to accept those files, so he does need to compress again…

Any ideas as to what if anything he can change, or what method to compress or anything that may be able to help? Thanks again.