CS4 Importing SD video from Sony NX5

I can import it but it looks blurry and soft and needs to be rendered. The video comes from Sony NX5 tapeless camera. It records SD in mpeg2 instead of DV. The softness seems to happen during this conversion, the original video looks sharp when viewing it in Windows Media Player.
How can I import it without making it look soft?

Tools to Convert to DV-AVI
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/415317?tstart=0
Convert http://premierepro.wikia.com/wiki/FAQ:How_do_I_convert_my_files%3F
Convert your files to DV-AVI Type II with 48KHz 16-bit Audio
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