Editing Canon 600D DSLR footage in Premiere Pro CS4

I am considering purchasing the new Canon 600D DSLR camera to capture HD video files. I understand that this camera captures H.264 video files but am getting very confused as to whether or not CS4 can edit this file type.
Some websites say I need to get CS5 and CS4 can't handle these files while others say CS4 will work just fine (and yet others say I need to transcode the files into a new file format for CS4 to use!).
I'm more than a little confused... please can someone from here give me some help? Is there anyone using a DSLR with CS4?If so please let me know how...
Thanks for reading :-)

I believe CS4 has trouble handling H.264 wrapped in a mov, so its not so much the camera itself.
You could consider getting Cineform Neoscene to convert the files and edit with Cineform avi's.

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