Bummer Jake. I know how you feel. I spent 7 years fighting Media Composer limitations when It came to integrating with third party software, then spent 10 years battling Avids lack of necessary development of the Avid DS. I hope you have a better experience with them then I did.
Did you contact Adobe Tech Support? If not ask for Vinay. He is one of the escalated tech experts and helped me solve some pretty complicated stuff in the past.
Good luck!
Tom Daigon
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