Trouble with playing movie clips

PLEASE can someone help?
I have just imported video footage from my old Sony Handycam and all that appears on the event library is single grey squares...clips? It takes forever for the beachball to stop whizzing - don't understand it.
It tried to watch previously imported videos and they seem to work ok.

Also, one of the "events" shows every single frame and is jerky when I ask it to play.

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