Encore insists on transcoding H.264 Blu-ray encoded file (Blu-ray legal)

I have a Blu-ray legal .m4v file encoded out of Adobe Media Encoder as H.264 Blu-ray VBR 2-Pass, maximum render, target 25Mbps, maximum 30Mbps.
My project is H.264, maximum 40Mbps.
Encore keeps listing the video file as untranscoded and wants to transcode it.
I've tried encoding just a portion of the video file instead of the whole thing using the same settings and when I bring this into Encore it recognizes it as Blu-ray legal and sets it to "Don't Transcode".
Can anyone think of a reason as to why this is happening?  I really don't want to sit through another eight hour encode that could degregade pq further.
Thanks!

A .264 file from x264Pro or MeGUI that is BD-legal will import into En and be automatically set to Do Not Transcode.  So the file extension isn't the problem.  There are some esoteric H.264 parameters in x264 that must be set precisely in order to have En set the .264 file to DNT.  I suspect those same parameters will have to be set in MainConcept's encoder.
If you want to jump in the deep end, here are the x264 parameters that produce BD-legal output that also make En happy:
program --pass 2 --bitrate 16000 --stats ".stats" --open-gop bluray --interlaced --pic-struct --level 4.1 --bframes 3 --ref 4 --slices 4 --aud --nal-hrd vbr --b-pyramid strict --keyint 30 --min-keyint 3 --vbv-bufsize 30000 --vbv-maxrate 40000 --weightp 0 --colorprim "bt709" --transfer "bt709" --colormatrix "bt709" --output "output" "input"
Obviously interlacing, bitrate, vbv-maxrate and such can be set as desired based on the source footage and delivery requirements.
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