Thanks, there might be some useful stuff there, but their problem is more to do with ripping footage off a DVD whereas the footage I have is straight off a camcorder, and saved to a DV file with iMovie (maybe this isn't DV-AVI and that's the problem, I've never used iMovie). I would have thought that this would import straight to Premier, but obviously not. I'm quite surprised that the mpeg2 files are having problems too, especially as I can play them in mplayer (although they do struggle in media player so maybe a checksum is wrong and causing the import to fail, but that's just wild guessing on my part).