[Guy Mullins]

Thank you for confirming what we had also come to conclude.

Historically we have used this process to work with clients and subject matter experts to help distill the best content from long form interviews in our documentary work. It has previously made sense to only ingest the good interview material from tape and then begin editing from there. Though with our current P2 workflow all of the interview content is already in FCP or ideally on some hard drive somewhere.

We were hoping to somewhat recreate this Widow Dub -> Client Review -> FCP process in the P2 environment, and to some extent we have been able to. We can produce accurate Window Dubs of interview material in FCP for our clients to review and make notes, which is a useful first step. However, as you’ve suggested, their notes (IN/OUT points, plus Comments) do apparently need to be manually transfered into FCP to create Sub Clips to begin the editing. We had hoped to avoid this manual step, but it does not seem possible at this point. Overall though, we think this process will still be useful in providing our non-technical clients a method of reviewing interview material using tools they are familiar with, a DVD player and spreadsheet, to generate notes that we can then work from.

While a bit of a round-peg-square-hole scenario it seems, overall we think this will still be a good strategy to begin working with our long form interview content.

Again, thanks for the additional opinions, and any other ideas or suggestions would be most welcome.