Importing HDV AVI

I had some Super 8 transferred to HDV and the telecine service sent it back in AVI files.
I imported them to the timeline and they won't play smoothly. I was advised to install xvid and divx and it makes no difference.
What are my best options?

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Harm Millaard wrote:
I doubt that the transfer of Super-8 to HDV will work in the manner you describe. HDV is .M2T format and can only be captured over firewire from tape. If you don't have tape to capture from, you have to ingest by copying the .M2T files to your hard disk. Since you mention AVI files and say they are HDV your best bet is to convert the AVI to M2T files. Maybe it is only the wrapper and renaming will do the trick, otherwise you have to find an external converter or ask your telecine service to redo their work, especially since they utter the absolute curses of every video editor 'Xvid' and 'Divx'.
Not entirely true, m2t is not the only method of acquiring video from HDV tape. They could have done an analog component or SDI capture into an AVI file with any codec they chose. Or they could have captured via firewire into an AVI container instead of an MPEG file. Our Matrox Axio system allows us to capture HDV tapes via firewire into an AVI with Matrox Codec in premiere.

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