You don't convert the footage. Premiere pro is very different than FCP...it works with the footage natively. You don't need to Log and Transfer, you just Media Browse and bring in the footage directly. You work with it as MXF...not MOV. I hope your editor is using the same editing system.
OK...well, I'm only half right. You CAN log the footage and transfer it to MOV if you want. You need to use Adobe Prelude to do that. That comes with CS 6. But unlike FCP, you can't convert it to MOV in the native format (DVCPRO HD) or to ProRes...you can convert it to any number of options, but know that Premiere Pro, unlike FCP and Avid, doesn't have it's own codec. So you'll be converting to OP1A MXF, or MPEG-2 if you use this option. And with this interface you can "log and transfer" the footage...pulling only selects of what you want, naming it what you want.
But normally you just copy the card over to your media drive, and access it natively. Or you can Prelude and convert the footage. That's an option new to Adobe. Just know that your workflow will not be the same as it was with FCP. It's going to change quite a bit, and you need to learn the Adobe way of doing things.
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