Best Conversion of AVCHD to AVI

I recently purchased the SONY NEX-VG30H camcorder that uses AVCHD as the compression format. From what I have been reading, the image quality is very good. There are many benefits including both video and audio with the same camera, interchangable lens, and small media size. Unfortunately, the high AVCHD compression is not recommended for editing for several reasons as follows:
- editing lossy over lossy leads to an ever degrading result.
- high CPU processing for editing is required that takes longer than necessary so converting to a less lossy format e.g. AVI is a good idea.
- not directly supported by Premier Pro.
I have years of experience with Premier Pro and presently at CS5. With the forum help I have a hex core CPU that I do not wish to compromise by slowing it down so a conversion to AVI appears to be the best choice. I find conversion software for apple computers recommended on the Internet.
What software do I need to convert to AVI to use with an i7 3930K with SSD C and two RAID 2TB support drives?

Thanks Ann. I get my information from the Internet, reading posts on the forum and my communications experience with Telus in Canada.
Perhaps my knowledge of how Premier Pro CS5 operates is lacking or I am not up to date with the latest information. Up to now, I have been capturing with firewire and editing with DV video. Since I am provided with a usb cable to download video from the NEX-VG30 camera I understand I download the video directly to my hard drive. I presume I import to Premier Pro from what I understand you are telling me. I have not edited with AVCHD in Premier Pro so it is good news that it is possible.
Any lossy or editing speed issues I try to avoid. From what makes sense to me and reading Harm Millaard's comments in posts, the CPU has more work to do that must slow it down. The reason I went to a 6 core CPU was to speed up editing after years of waiting for results that I found annoying and demotivating. My 6 core PC may be fast enough to do the work but I do not wish to slow it down using AVCHD if AVI is much faster.
Digital technology using bits rather than analog signal shapes apart from minor conversion issues keeps information pure if bits are not lost, but compression over compression after many processes of the original signal does not appear to be a good idea unless the original information is processed by Premier Pro such that the final product is as true as the original.
Can you clarify what I have said if incorrect?

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