Mpeg-2 Editing

So i have a Sony DCR-SR42 hard disk drive camera and i want to be able to edit this footage with final cut express HD. I have realized that Mpeg-2 won't edit in FCHD so i bought the Mpeg-2 patch for quicktime in order to view the footage and then downloaded Mpeg Streamclip in order to convert the files into editable footage but i don't know what to convert the MPEG-2 files into .....AVI? .....DV?....MOV? in order to be able to edit them with audio and video in Final Cut Express
Any help would be immensely appreciated

MOV but when you use stream clip do apple DV for the editing ok, it will make a MOV DV ecoding for FCE and it works great I use stream clip and I have a DCR-SR 30 and I have the HD HDD version also but i have to convert from another program that has to decode the AVCHD.
If you want to see footage of my work with my normal definition camcorder by sony check these out.
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the mp2 compressor inside a DVD is a delivery format, not meant for further processing as editing...
a conversion from VHS directly to iM's native, internal format "dv" would be much better...
a conversion from one lossy format as mp2 to another (as Handbrake's mp4 or Divx or whatever) makes another conversion neccessairy => loss of pic quality...
to import/convert DVDs, you have the following options:
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* Apple mpeg2 plugin (20$) + Streamclip (free)
* Cinematize >60$
* Mpeg2Works >25$ + Apple plug-in
* Toast6/7 allows converting to dv/import dvd, hit apple-k
* connect your Camera to a DVD-player and copy to tape/use as converter
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Hi,
after reading this, I checked the iMovie'08 Camcorder support list at
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306171
I see that it supports both Sony DCR-SR100 and DCR-SR300.
There is no sign of my camcorder, Sony DCR-SR200. Do you think it should work anyway as I guess they have the same format???
(please let it be so)

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@Aaron:
While this may not be the answer to your problem, one thing to try would be to check your project's Sequence\Settings. CS4 works a little differently and this change seems to be causing confusion. The other would be to use a program called GSpot to check your camera's MPEG codec against Premiere's MPEG codec.
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@Harm:
To call premiere Pro/AME CS4 a Porsche is even more ludicrous!!!
Harm, why don't you get a life and stop posting here if you have nothing positive to contribute but can only put people down.
There are numerous experienced people coming to this forum to voice their complaints and dissatisfaction with CS4 and all you do is naysay their experiences without giving any possible solutions to their problems.
There are also inexperienced users who would appreciate some guidance as they wrestle with problems that do not make sense to them.
Unless you are willing to actually attempt to give some assistance that is meaningful, try not to make everyone feel as though they are stupid and shouldn't bother coming to this forum, just keep your opinionated comments to yourself.
I don't know you or your history here and perhaps you have been a solid contributor for a long time, but perhaps also you have grown tired of answering the same "stupid" OE questions again and again. If that's the case, then perhaps it's time for you to rethink your relationship with this forum as your present attitude of snide putdowns is, IMHO, tiresome, boring, ineffectual and inappropriate.

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Thank you for the kind words. What I tried to do was to convey the idea that not all .VOB files are created equal. It's just like .AVI files. Different "stuff" can reside inside those files with common extensions. It's the "stuff" that matters, and not the file extension.
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