Well done, Stewart!
I'm sorry the ideas I had didn't work. I'm happy, though, that you found a workaround. It sucks that you have to run all those files through Handbrake, but it beats crashing and buying new hardware.
Will the camera allow you to change format or codec? If so, maybe there's a more Premiere-friendly setting you can use.
Regardless, it's good that you can get down to editing without the errors!
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