Premiere freezes on import video

Premiere Pro refuse to start or freezes when I open a video. My native resolution is 1366*768, I tried on an external screen with higher res, same problem after a few minutes.
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Sounds like an elegant solution if in fact you have iLife '06 from which to restore. For those of us that have recently purchased an Apple product (because "it just works") this is not a viable option. I'm not going to go out and purchase any previous versions of iLife when I paid for what is supposed to be the latest greatest. Obviously the solution already exists because it was working fine before the last update, seems to me that it should be simple enough to turn back the clock a little so that we can all get back to work. Don't get me wrong I'm happy for you that you've found a solution, I'd probably do the same thing if I could. Right now my strategy is to continue to complain until something gets done, I encourage everyone that has this issue to weigh in. As for now my "work around" is to back to my PC based computer to download and edit all my video. "How do you like them apples", Apple.

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/private/var/db/receipts
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i need help before i fkn suicide..
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i've tried uninstalling cs4 then reinstalling etc... i've tried the 4.0.1 update etc... i've opened it up in another program then changed it into .avi and still nothing!!!!
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try doing a little research on the hundreds of posts exactly like yours.
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1. Do not change the output frame rate to 25 from an external software. I say this because there are many algorithms that convert a 30 fps to 25 (Which frames are dropped, what happens to P-frames, bidirectional frames etc.). And Adobe will best understand an algorithm that is theirs. So keep the frame rate to 29.97 when converting to DV-AVI
2. Convert the video to a project setting that Premiere Elements has. You want a Widescreen, so do a 16:9, 720x480, DV-AVI. This video when brought into Premiere Elements will switch the project automatically to the NTSC DV Widescreen
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The person who gave me this footage compressed it from an AVI. I'm not very good with codecs and what not, so I hope y'all can point me in the right direction.
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Running CS6 and just purchased QuickTime Pro 7 in hopes it would help, but no luck. With the long list of InstalledCodecs (report below), I'm hesitant to disable any because as I said I'm not sure which are what. I would love to just re-install this entire damn OS and Suite and hope for the best - but I really just want to work with this clip already.
InstalledCodec report: http://www.secularuh.org/hosted/report.html
GSpot:
MediaInfo:
Complete name                            : C:UserstlowDocumentsEnvoyMPV2012_12RAWEnvoy Nov 2012_PGM_0001.mp4
Format                                   : MPEG-PS
File size                                : 19.1 GiB
Duration                                 : 26mn 26s
Overall bit rate mode                    : Variable
Overall bit rate                         : 104 Mbps
Video
ID                                       : 224 (0xE0)
Format                                   : MPEG Video
Format version                           : Version 2
Format profile                           : Main@High
Format settings, BVOP                    : No
Format settings, Matrix                  : Default
Format settings, GOP                     : N=1
Duration                                 : 26mn 26s
Bit rate mode                            : Variable
Bit rate                                 : 100.0 Mbps
Width                                    : 1 920 pixels
Height                                   : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 16:9
Frame rate                               : 29.970 fps
Standard                                 : NTSC
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scan type                                : Interlaced
Scan order                               : Top Field First
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 1.609
Stream size                              : 18.6 GiB (97%)
Audio #1
ID                                       : 192 (0xC0)
Format                                   : MPEG Audio
Format version                           : Version 1
Format profile                           : Layer 2
Duration                                 : 26mn 26s
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 384 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Stream size                              : 72.6 MiB (0%)
Audio #2
ID                                       : 193 (0xC1)
Format                                   : MPEG Audio
Format version                           : Version 1
Format profile                           : Layer 2
Duration                                 : 26mn 26s
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 384 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Stream size                              : 72.6 MiB (0%)

It would take a couple days, and I really need to start working on the video now.
The file extension was actually MPG, not MP4; it had changed when I was trying to try different solutions.
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<?xpacket begin="" id="W5M0MpCehiHzreSzNTczkc9d"?>
<x:xmpmeta xmlns:x="adobe:ns:meta/" x:xmptk="Adobe XMP Core 5.3-c011 66.145661, 2012/02/06-14:56:27        ">
<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#">
<rdf:Description rdf:about=""
    xmlns:xmpMM="http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/"
    xmlns:stEvt="http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/sType/ResourceEvent#"
    xmlns:xmp="http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/"
   xmpMM:InstanceID="xmp.iid:33D710D34841E211BD01E13660E0CD6D"
   xmpMM:DocumentID="xmp.did:31D710D34841E211BD01E13660E0CD6D"
   xmpMM:OriginalDocumentID="xmp.did:31D710D34841E211BD01E13660E0CD6D"
   xmp:MetadataDate="2012-12-08T09:06:23-06:00"
   xmp:ModifyDate="2012-12-08T09:06:20-06:00">
   <xmpMM:History>
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     <rdf:li
      stEvt:action="saved"
      stEvt:instanceID="xmp.iid:32D710D34841E211BD01E13660E0CD6D"
      stEvt:when="2012-12-08T09:06:20-06:00"
      stEvt:softwareAgent="Adobe Adobe Media Encoder CS6 (Windows)"
      stEvt:changed="/"/>
     <rdf:li
      stEvt:action="saved"
      stEvt:instanceID="xmp.iid:33D710D34841E211BD01E13660E0CD6D"
      stEvt:when="2012-12-08T09:06:23-06:00"
      stEvt:softwareAgent="Adobe Adobe Media Encoder CS6 (Windows)"
      stEvt:changed="/metadata"/>
    </rdf:Seq>
   </xmpMM:History>
</rdf:Description>
</rdf:RDF>
</x:xmpmeta>
<?xpacket end="w"?>

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