Advice on Converter for AVCHD to something Premiere Can Edit?

i'm dealing footage consumer camcorder in avchd, premiere cs3 refuses to

import it.

i have looked converters on google , tried 5 different converters. produced horrible results.

does have converter recommend lossless conversion quicktime or xdcam format?

http://www.cineform.com/neoscene/

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