Nikon D600 MOV (h.264) files slow in Premiere 5.5

I'm wondering why the Nikon MOV files (h 264, 1080/30p) files stutter in Premiere 5.5. Doesns't matter if "CUDA" is turned on or off. They play back so smoothly in any other media player (Windows Media player, Quick time player, etc. and at full res.) The similar files from my Canon 7D also play back much more smoothly in Premiere 5.5. I'm wondering if the Nikon D600 is too new for Premiere 5.5 and if I need to upgrade to version 6. Any ideas? The system is running fairly fast - Win7 Pro X64, Intel 3770K (not yet accelerated, 16GB RAM).
Thanks,
Doug A

To add to Jim's remark, the reason is the .MOV extension. That causes PR to use QuiRckTime and that is a 32 bit application. It completely destroys the 64 bit nature of PR, thus reducing available memory to around 3.3 GB, even if 64 GB is installed, increasing the swapping to pagefile, slowing down your system even further.

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General
Complete name                            : E:\Projects\0.flv
Format                                   : Flash Video
File size                                : 237 MiB
Duration                                 : 30mn 1s
Overall bit rate                         : 1 101 Kbps
Tagged date                              : UTC 2014-06-10 20:38:05
Tagging application                      : flvmeta 1.1-r213
Video
Format                                   : AVC
Format/Info                              : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile                           : [email protected]
Format settings, CABAC                   : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames                : 4 frames
Codec ID                                 : 7
Duration                                 : 30mn 1s
Bit rate                                 : 941 Kbps
Width                                    : 1 920 pixels
Height                                   : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 16:9
Frame rate mode                          : Constant
Frame rate                               : 29.970 fps
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scan type                                : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.015
Stream size                              : 208 MiB (88%)
Audio
Format                                   : AAC
Format/Info                              : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile                           : LC
Codec ID                                 : 10
Duration                                 : 30mn 1s
Bit rate                                 : 125 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Channel positions                        : Front: L R
Sampling rate                            : 44.1 KHz
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Delay relative to video                  : 24ms
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Format                                   : AVC
Format/Info                              : Advanced Video Codec
File size                                : 207 MiB
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