Adobe Media Encoder Script

     I've already used script (JavaScript) in Premier, After Effects and Photoshop to help manage our in house workflow and projects and would like to be able to setup some scripts for AME but I'm unable to find any documentation on reference or guide to script for this application. The info I found does say that AME is scriptable, but so far I haven't seen any documentation or example script.

     Actually I already use it but I can't automate the output folder/file to follow our workflow.
     Another problem we have is with a lot o AVI files, specially the ones captured directly with DeckLink Blackmagic boards and Canopus wich use their respective codecs, for the SD PAL 720x576@25i format the aspect ratio is default to 1.0 instead of the 1.0940 for PAL D1, and to correct this we have to change the setting in Interpret Footage, but this can only be done in a per file basis, manually one by one.
     Thanks in advance for any help provided, hope there's at least a form of workaround for this.

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