[Max Xavier]

Thank you everyone for your input. It all makes sense.

Shane, I agree with you. It boils down to this, we have a micro-budget short that an editor colleague has graciously offered to take on for free. I am a producer on the project, and I am in possession of one of the copies of the footage. There is no AE. It is an exchange between friends. I am responsible for this because I am the only one. My goal was to make the hand-off to the editor as painless as possible, as they are donating their time and work.

The editor asked for the footage, and asked for it to be transcoded and synced. There was an expectation that I knew how to prepare the footage. I guess I was hoping that there was something simple that I was missing. Obviously there are specialized people whose job it is to do this, so assuming it was simple was silly. From what I gather, it will be best just to explain to the editor that I have no clue what I am doing.

Thanks again, everyone.