Project Manager - Transcode and trim clips when multiple instances of same clips in timeline

Hi all,

I'm attempting to work with the much talked about and frequently disparaged Project Manager. I got the consolidate and transcode function (trimming clips with handles of 48 frames) to work for a large project but now I have another problem.

I often have multiple instances of the same clip in a sequence - a shot from a certain angle that we cut back and forth to in different parts of the scene, for instance. Pretty standard situation for most types of video work. I noticed that sometimes (but not always), these clips in the new transcoded project link back to the same source file rather than each linking back to separate copies that contain just what parts of the shot were used in that instance + handles.

This wouldn't be a problem if it weren't for the workflow of sending this back and forth to the colorist. Even for sending to Resolve, it works fine, but getting the graded clips back from him is when this result in problems. I wanted to relink the graded versions of each clip to the versions in my timeline when he's done, mainly so that I can keep other effects on the clips that he's not doing (such as speed, keyframed scaling or cropping, etc), rather than having to copy over effects one by one to every clip. This won't be possible when he's exporting each clip from his timeline individually but on my end some of them link back to the same source clip. It's a feature-length project.

Is this probably just the result of one of the strange errors that so many people refer to with the Project Manager, or is there some way to prevent this? Alternatively, is there any way for him to export from Resolve as the entire clip, while having it graded differenly on different parts of the clip as they were used at different places in the sequence (a weird idea, but figured I ask - there would of course be a jump at some frame in the look, but these frames wouldn't be used in the timeline). 

Thank you for your help!