I need to do one of the following:

1.figure out a way to make it so you don't spawn when the game starts, but after you watch the cinimatic you spawn

or

2. have the player spawned but hidden so when the cinimatic stops he becomes visible and you play the game.

The cinimatic starts at the beggining of the game: you drive in on a warthog (i used bipeds and ai) then you get out of the vehical, have a liitle conversation with the other marines then the game starts.

Help is greatly apreciated, thank you.

Use teleporting. Teleport him out of the way, and teleport him back when the cutscene is over.

(object_teleport [object] [flag])

If you want to teleport the player, use (list_get (players) 0)

So if my flag was "tele", I would use:

(object_teleport (list_get (players) 0) tele)

good idea, is that what they did in the campaing?
anyways, thank you.

Yea, and they used special cinematic bipeds for cutscenes.