ProRes quality inferior to AVCHD on timeline?

I'm doing a large project, mixing codecs.  A lot of the material is AVCHD.
I want to standardize all the material to ProRes 422 (HQ).
I converted a bunch of the AVCHD files to ProRes 422 (HQ).  The resulting Quicktimes are fine, very clean, when opened singly in Quicktime.  When I import them in Premiere Pro CS6 and put them on a timeline ... and play full screen, it looks as if they are needing rendering ... there is a on odd choppiness or bias-issue on the sharp edges.  Looks like an old SD codec.
I'm just switching from FCP7 to Premiere Pro, so maybe I'm missing something in the process.  Though the conversions from AVCHD to ProRes were done with Adobe Media Encoder.
Ideally I want to be able to work in ProRes, moving back and forth between Mac and PC.  Half the people involved are using Premiere Pro in Windows 7, and the other half are using PP in Mac.
Any suggestions would be most appreciated,
Thank you,
Ben

I'm just switching from FCP7 to Premiere Pro, so maybe I'm missing something in the process.  Though the conversions from AVCHD to ProRes were done with Adobe Media Encoder.
Ben
Don't transcode anything... edit with your native files, regardless of OS.
You need to break the FCP "everything needs to be ProRes" mindset.
You are needlessly costing yourself time and media quality.

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