Premiere's not recognizing my avi files

I have a bunch of avi files that I made a few years ago. I can't remember what codecs were used exactly. I now have need to use this files again and do some editing to them but Premiere's not recognizing them for some reason. CS6 imports the audio but not the video and CC won't import them at all. The video's play fine off the desktop but won't work with Premiere. Anybody have any suggestions on how I might be able to get these working? Maybe recommend a program I can download to convert them? I have the entire creative cloud so there might even be another adobe program that could help me with this that I'm just not aware of.
Thanks

Report back with the codec details of your file, use the programs below... A screen shot works well to SHOW people what you are doing
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/592070?tstart=30 for screen shot instructions
Free programs to get file information for PC/Mac http://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo/Download

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