Distortion of Video upon Import

Hey guys I’ve been searching around for a few days now and haven't been able to come up with any answers so he goes one of my last attempts.
The other day i was trying to make some random stuff and i captured a test video and imported it to premiere, all went well so i continued. Once i finished capturing the video i needed (100% unchanged settings) i proceeded to import, only for the bottom 3/8ths of the screen to be a green bar. I checked the source video and it was perfectly fine. I shut down and restarted, uploaded the other clips as well and everything is coming out great except for this one particular clip (had this problem once before but i didn’t check the source and wrote it off as a corrupt source) the only difference in the clips are length and the one coming corrupt is larger but it’s only an hour video and that shouldn’t be an issue...
Any help at all would be greatly appreciated!

>captured a test video
Not enough information
Read Bill Hunt on a file type as WRAPPER http://forums.adobe.com/thread/440037?tstart=0
What is a CODEC... a Primer http://forums.adobe.com/thread/546811?tstart=0
What CODEC is INSIDE that file? http://forums.adobe.com/thread/440037?tstart=0
Report back with the codec details of your file, use the programs below
For PC http://www.headbands.com/gspot/ or http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en
For Mac http://mediainfo.massanti.com/
Once you know exactly what it is you are editing, report back with that information... and your project setting, and if there is a red line above the video in the timeline, which indicates a mismatch between video and project
To be sure sequence and file match, See 2nd post for picture of NEW ITEM process http://forums.adobe.com/thread/872666?tstart=0

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