The problem is that video

The problem is that video files have been overloaded to contain different sorts of data, which is very annoying and now it’s almost impossible to support them all.

There is a tutorial talks about the AVI to Adobe Premiere Pro incompatible issues:

http://www.brorsoft.com/how-to/import-avi-files-in-adobe-premiere-pro.html

You can have a look and get your problem resolved.