Sending transcoded clip to Premiere Pro with Mono audio

Hi there,

I noted that others had asked this question around August 2013 but haven't seen any progress made on this issue, which is that we prefer to edit in Premiere pro with mono audio tracks, but we are unable to make transcoded material come over from Prelude with mono audio.

We need to have total control over our audio tracks and for us in a News/ENG environment that also means fast turnaround production.  So we want to choose the part of the XDCAM clip that we want in Prelude, send it to Premiere Pro and put the interview grab (for example) down on track 1 of the Timeline with only talent mike audio (which was recorded on the camera's channel 1) and not have to pan it or worry about doing much else to it.  Then we cut the rest of the overlay with sound effects that were recorded on channel 2 going straight to track 2 on the timeline.  When we transmit it to head office we send them two discrete channels of audio: talent/VO on Track 1 and effects on Track 2.

We only have a problem when Transcoding is involved.  With the audio prefs in PrPro set to "Mono" everything else is fine, its just that when Prelude transcodes a video it makes the audio a hassle for us, because it can only come over to PrPro as a stereo audio track.

Adobe, is there ever going to be the ability to just make a Preference in Prelude to send the clips with Mono audio, as there is in Premiere Pro??

Or has anyone figured this out and I am just missing something?