Most direct/efficient way of treating AVCHD?

[brassplyer]

Recently got a camera that shoots in 1080p AVCHD. My first experiment in treating the video with NeatVideo involves converting it to HuffYuv with Vegas Pro 8 - since VP8 will edit the AVCHD directly - and then denoising the converted HuffYuv video within VirtualDub, then for example if I want to upload to YouTube, converting the HuffYuv video to H.264.

Is there a more direct way to treat the AVCHD if I want to apply filters to it than converting to an intermediate file type?

Thanks.

[newpball]

Doesn't NeatVideo have a plugin for Vegas?

Is there a specific reason you need to denoise? For instance because it is a dark scene?

Indiscriminately denoising just because one can is seldom a good idea.

[brassplyer]

Doesn't NeatVideo have a plugin for Vegas?

Is there a specific reason you need to denoise? For instance because it is a dark scene?

Indiscriminately denoising just because one can is seldom a good idea.

The specific need in this case is to test things out. Actually, it was getting toward dusk so there's definitely some lower light noise but it's virtually guaranteed there will be need to denoise at some point.

I believe the NeatVideo plugin works on later versions of Vegas, but at any rate the one I have is for Virtualdub.