Imported high quality AVI looks bad in PE

Hi all. I recorded a video of a computer screen using CAMSTUDIO at 200FPS (which looks great). After importing the video (avi) into Premier Elements the video is choppy & worthless. How can I change the settings on this video, so that it looks as good or close to the original?
Thanks

Hi,
I have a similar issue with AVI files. I have Sony Digital 8 Camcorder and through a different program I downloaded the tapes and made them into AVI files.
I was trying to make a movie with premiere 7 using these AVI files. The quality was poor. There is no smooth motion of the movies, it was kind of moving frame by frame and also at the end of the movie faces and surrounding colors was weird (as if they are negative etc..)
I chose the out put video quality to be high and format to be NTSC. I have a 3gig ram, Windows vista laptop.
Am I missing something in movie making setting. Can someone help
Thx...

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