Hi Folks,
Thanks for the replies. After spending vast amounts of time on the phone will Dell (running diagnostics to ensure it wasnt hardware misconfig or errors etc) and then Sony with their IT department, I have come to the realisation that its not the fact that the video was captured on the Sony Camera - its the fact that the video was ripped off the DVD using the Sony provided software!!! After downloading a different dvd ripper and getting some of the video off the DVD's, I was able to happily import it into Premiere.
The problem is that a lot of the video is no longer on the DVD-RW's... I had put it all on my computer then reformatted the DVDs to use again
The question that has to be asked - why the hell doesnt the software provided with the camera do its job properly???