Hi I think I determined that the file size of the video might have been the problem. I have tried a new video which is much smaller and at first I thought it still wasn't working as model is still white but then when I test rendered a patch it showed up as an image (not as a video though. When I created a movie out of it I was hoping the texture would be animated as am using an avi file. But the movie I created of the scene contained no image at all not even the little I got in the test render. I produced an uncompressed avi file from premiere pro but when I loaded that it left the square at the bottom white. So I created the regular avi and I can see what I have shown here in screen shot. However I am having the issues described above. So am now closer but still not the animated texture I need. Any more ideas would be appreciated.