As for the "location" of those AVI files, that will depend on where you Copied the files for the camera, or its card. Only you will know where that is.

Colin's suggestion is for "re-wrapping" the H.264 CODEC material, in a container, that Premiere will expect to have that CODEC, like MP4, rather than the non-standard (though it is becoming more common) AVI container.

PrPro CS 5.5 (in one of its updates), re-coded to instruct the program to "look" in AVI's for the H.264 CODEC, and I assume that PrPro CS6 carried that over. Perhaps PrE 11 will incorporate those instructions too?

Why some camera mfgrs. thought that this was a good idea, is beyond me, as there were already several containers, where H.264 was "common." Sometimes, I feel as though camera mfgrs. sit around asking, "How can we make things harder for our customers?" Or maybe the question really is, "How can we make things so hard for our customers to use any other software to edit, but ours... ?" I just do not get it, but have never been invited to one of those product development meetings. Were I, I would vote to make life as easy on the consumers, as possible. What an abstract concept?!?!

Hunt

Actually, Adobe is addressing the issue, but their efforts are coming with the product release schedules, which, for PrE is ~ 12 mos.. Historically, Adobe has issued few updates for PrE, and then only to fix major things, like when Vista was released, just after PrE 3.0 was.

PrPro usually gets more updates, being a much more complex program, so the adaptation to the H.264 in an AVI wrapper was easier to get out, as it was along with several major fixes.

I expect to see this support in PrE 11, but do not know for sure, that it will be.

When PrE 10 was coded, no camera mfgr. was doing that odd wrapping, at least none that I know of.

As for Colin's workaround, I have never used it, but my guess is that you missed probably one step, and it must be an important one.

Wish that I knew about that method better, but have never encountered any of those files.

Good luck,

Hunt