@walter biscardi

Yep, totally agree it's a waste of time, just a work around if for some reason you couldn't use the flat version for one of the episodes.

You could also, and again, a waste of time and a work around, use a program like episode and a watch folder. As your project manager is kicking out trimmed xdcam, episode is seeing this clips and starting to encode your transcode. I say episode and not AME, because AME is too stupid to pass through frame rate or size, you have to know the frame rate and assign a preset per frame rate and size. An annoyance and a hindrance to a workflow like this.