LR5.1 Shooting tethered need to auto crop

Hi.
I shoot for online retail and I need everything to be 8x10. I shoot everthing tethered and I'm trying to save as much time as possible. My model doesn't move she just changes clothing.
I set up a preset with white balance, lens correction and other small refinements that runs on each picture as its imported from my camera (tethered) however I can't find a ways to get it to crop. So what I've resorted too is after the shoot is done crop 1 photo cmd+shft+c and select all the photos and then cmd+shft+v and go through the fine tune them.
Does anyone have a solution for me?
Thanks
Didrik

Shoot one image.
Crop it.
In the Tether Dialog Shooting Bar, set the Develop Settings to Same As Previous
Continue to shoot and the subsequent shots should come in automatically cropped to the first photo's aspect ratio.

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