XD CAM EX footage

Hi i contact Adobe a few mounths ago i sent files to them and there no solution yet for this problem: I bought the Adobe CS6.0 and i cant work with my XD Cam EX files. Is there a solution for this or should i ask my money back from adobe?
Case number #0183368749
Regards
David Luis

Hi Greg
Any news about XDCAM EX files.
Is there Something i can do?
I hope you understand but i need to work those file. A lot of my work are
XDCAM EX files and i only got 2 computers. One has the CS5.5 and the other
one has CS6.0.
.It helps if i install a english version of Windows 7
I hope you could understand my situation
Kind Regards
David Luis
2012/8/21 lasvideo <[email protected]>
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