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I just want to make sure I'm going about things the right way before I submit a feature request for any of this.
I'm starting a project that was sporadicly shot on P2 cards (DVCPRO HD 720 24p) over a couple months,  I'm now going through to organize all my footage, as a FCP 7 transplant normally what I would do is use Log and Transfer, go through all the clips, rename the files, set in and out points, and before transcoding I would turn off audio tracks 3 and 4 in the clips as I only need 1 and 2.
Now with prelude what I find myself doing is using the ingest function to figure out which clips I want to keep and transfering those to a new destination, then going into finder and unlocking all my newly transfered P2 Media files, then going through the clips again to rename, set subclips, add comments, and then send it over to premiere pro where once it's there I can highlight all the media and modify the audio to get rid of tracks 3 and 4.
I've read most of the forum posts so I realize I'm not the first to mention some of these things. 
It would be great if not only I could rename the clips in the ingest area, so I have a better understanding of what I'm looking at when logging, but also if I could choose not to transfer over certain audio tracks.  I know I can mute them in the logging window but it's still there when I transfer over to Premiere so I still have to go through the step of selecting all my media and then getting rid of tracks 3 and 4. 
The reason I transfer the footage to a new destination instead of just working off the original cards is becuase on some of the cards there is a lot of media that I don't need and I would prefer to just work from a smaller transfered file folder in the edit once I'm done logging all my footage, now the problem with that is for P2 Media I have to unlock all the files before I can save any comments or subclips, which doesn't take much time to do a batch version of (thanks to your link in the other thread about this) but it is an extra step I wanted to avoid.  So to get around this I figured I would transcode the footage to something else before logging, but then I run into the audio issue of all 4 channels being mixed down into 2.  I tried tweaking a couple different presets but was never able to get it where the transcode didn't mess with the audio and so I couldn't get rid of channels 3 and 4, or I think at one point all i got was a mono version of tracks 1 and 2 mixed which doesn't work for me either. 
I thankfully don't have to do this but when I was thinking about this audio issue I realized that if I had a 20 min long clip but only needed 3 parts that are 1 min each, I wouldn't be able to do partial ingets since that requires a transcode so i would just be stuck with the entire 20 min clip and having to create 3 subclips from that.
I thought about just skipping prelude all together at one point and seeing how Premiere would work with P2 media but I quickly reliazed that the ability to transfer certain clips to a seperate folder and the ease at which I can add comments and create subclips that get transfered over for the final edit make Prelude worth figuring out for my workflow.
sorry for the long ramble, I'm just seeing if anyone has advice or opinions on if I'm just so stuck in my FCP 7 ways that I'm missing an obvious way to streamline my workflow or doing something wrong or what.

Thank you, Jeremy, for your post. Having an option in an AME preset to send through selected audio tracks (and ignore other selected audio tracks) would certainly be useful, please do submit a feature request at http://adobe.com/go/wish

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