On a slight tangent:
I have been talking to the guys that wrote Conformalizer, a reconform app that analyses edls as well as the pixel data of the respective reference clips to find differences between two cuts, report on them and export the required info to host apps. It’s an absolutely amazing tool that has already been used by Skywalker Sound among other clients. They are about to release it’s successor called MatchBox and I am helping a little bit with the Hiero integration which already works beautifully.
The devs are from the sound world but are very keen to get more input from picture guys like VFX.
Just thought that the team looking into the Cut entity and the “compare edl” feature might be interested, maybe even in a collaboration of sorts?!
Here is a link to Conformalizer, but MatchBox will look a bit simpler and easier to use:
http://thecargocult.nz/conformalizer.shtml