AVCHD Blu-ray passthrough clarification

Hi,
I think some clarification about the AVCHD to Blu-ray passthrough needs to come from someone at Adobe who can give us the final word on this.
From what I gather from a number of posts that have touched on this subject, the ONLY way to go from AVCHD directly to Blu-ray in Encore without transcoding, is to import a raw (unedited, untrimmed) AVCHD file into Encore as a Timeline.
All along I believed that I could use Dynamic Link to import a P Pro AVCHD sequence that would not need to be transcoded. But I have not been able to do that. Even if it is cuts-only with no effects or any other kind of files.
I have been able to import the files I used in that sequence into Encore, and then I do get the message that the "Blu-ray Transcode Status" is "Don't Transcode." But I haven't been able to get that message using any other workflow. And clearly that is not a workable solution for most situations.
Has anyone been able to dynamically link a P Pro sequence and do a passthrough to Blu-ray without transcoding? If so, would you give us some insight into how you did it?
Thanks,
Jeff Sengstack

See this thread:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/3045149#3045149
Note two inmportant things:
a) The promotional information that the original postger refers to no longer says anything about AVCHD in the Encore section (the discussion was in the CS5 days). But my post suggests that it was there and it only claimed that Encore could take AVCHD from camera (if it was legal BD) and not transcode it in an Encore project. Premiere still does not provide smart rendering, so once the materials comes into PR and gets exported, it is not the same as was you are looking for.
b) The "solution" in that thread I believe involved the edited material in Premiere being transcoded. If that is happening, it really doesn't seem to me to matter that it is something other than AVCHD.
See Encore help regarding AVCHD passthrough:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/encore/cs/using/WSbaf9cd7d26a2eabfe807401038582db29-7ebfa.html #WSc1b83f70210cd101-82aadf112511d10d96-8000
Note the first comment at the bottom, that explains that the additional qualifier is that the AVCHD is BD legal, and that at least one camera's output was not legal.

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