CS6 Canon 5DmkII Footage looks pixelated

Hi,
I've recently imported some night time footage using the 5D and when viewed on the timeline it is pixellated and is generally low quality. Played back in windows media player it is perfectly fine.
I have searched high and low for a solution to this but can't find anything that will work. I thought Premiere Pro 6 supported H264??
Any help would be much appreciated in how to solve the problem.
Thanks
System Info
Windows 7
Intel Core i3-2350M CPU @2.30GHz
8GB RAM
64 Bit Operating System

On a 1600 x 900 monitor the source and program monitors would typically occupy around 25% each of the screen estate, meaning around 400 x 225 for 1920 x 1080 source material. Degradation is expected, especially with on-board graphics from Intel.
To be honest, it is about your laptop, I expect. It is slower than molasses in winter and may earn the top ranking score in the Benchmark Results, in terms of the highest rank and the highest time, but when looking at results, we tends to consider lower as better, not higher.
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