.avi files acting weird inside of premiere

So I have some lovely videos that I have edited that require some screen capturing. The .avi motion JPEG files we used from the Black Magic Design Intensity capture PCI Cards looks GREAT........until I drop it into premiere and it looks like some jank aliasing/moire/interlacing crap is happening.I have tried conforming the sequences to the file and vice versa, neither with no avail. I have exported with many a different coding, but still cant get the videos to look right.
I have uploaded some JPEGS of the screenshots......and YES I have the playback set to full resolution so I know its not that setting. vs
any help would be much appreciated.
Just incase it matters here are my system specs
Gigabyte FX-970A-UD3
AMD FX-8350 @ 4.0 GHz
32 GB Gskill Ripjaws RAM
EVGA GTX 760 Superclocked
EVGA Supernova 1000w Gold PSU
OCZ 120 GB SSD
Seagate 2TB HDD
Windows 7 Ultimate (I wish you could use adobe in linux)

Had to modify>interperet footage> conform to field order: progressive.
Weird taht it would import as interlaced even though source is progressive. I didn't think to check there because I have only ever used it for FPS manipulation.
Thanks for your reply.

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