Thanks for responding Shane.
That’s just the way it is for this project unfortunately, I think it’s more related to scheduling and turn around for the post company that hired me to do the edit. I still want to find a way to deliver the best possible video, and thought this would be a good opportunity to also learn any tricks/methods/workflows for really fast turn around on these types of projects in the future.
Oh, and I never get the luxury of transcripts or a producer for these types of jobs. It’s just me and an edit station for X hours. I’m also cutting a few additional rough-cut videos, transcoding XDCam footage of two games, and authoring the DVDs in that same amount of time. The only thing I don’t have to deal with is sound, the audio is finished in house by someone else, and media duplication/distribution.