Long story short, hire a young and old priest and get the salt.. GOT IT!! LOL
Using small low quality clips worked fine. Or has in the past. I changed the quality from med/low to high in SLOBS and since then has been an issue. But a hit or miss issue. Which is beyond frustrating because I never know if I file is going to be good to edit or not based on the programs mood. And considering the gopro files do it as well I'm just at a loss as to whats wrong.
Sometimes a 4 minute clip works, sometimes it doesnt. Sometimes a 45 minute clip loads fine, sometimes it doesnt. I was even willing to throw down hard cash to upgrade my PC but a buddy of mine looked over the specs and said there really shouldn't be an issue. I thought I needed more RAM or a better processor for thinking but apparently they are still good to use.
This causes me some stress as I've been shooting HD stock footage for resale and I'm anxious I wont be able to use VP for the trimming and cutting out the audio to add music. So the most basic of editing really..
At this point I think I'm going to dig out my old Win 7 rig and see if there's a difference. It was a surprisingly hefty beast before I moved onto this rig (which has only been troublesome since i bought it tbh..)
Like you said, sometimes things just don't work and I need an exorcism on the whole shebang however I do need to find a solution even if that means having to learn yet another video editing program AGAIN. (I don't want to ugh) I learned VP for a project in like a weeks time and have been loving it when it DOES work, but I need to move out of potato quality if the work is to be taken seriously, be used for profit and not be grainy against my clear graphics/overlays etc.
I'll also try messing around with the settings in SLOBS as the files coming from it have the issue more than naught, as well as the other computer and see if the results change. The only other thing I've done that's 'helped' has been to put the files in a basic editing program and either chop it in half or into smaller clips and or do that plus lower the quality 🙁
I'll touch base in a couple of days after tinkering with things again and see if it yields any other results.
Thank you again!