There’s nothing wrong with using Lab Roll as opposed to Tape to finish. The main difference between using Tape is when you create your EDLs during your final picture turnover, you’ll want to make sure that you set the list tool to use Lab Roll instead of Tape, which is the default.

I’m not sure how that would work with AAF. This method might…

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That’s a bad idea. I don’t recommend it. Avid’s native media management is it’s strength, and working offline especially on a project like a doc where you’re bound to have a mountain of footage is going to serve you better than trying to work at native resolution untranscoded.

I usually avoid TextEdit because it has a tendency to save files as UTF-16 instead of UTF-8, which can create problems. With TextEdit you want to make sure you save as plain text instead of rich text. That said, you’ve mentioned you’ve done it before so that information may not be applicable, just something to try if it gives you trouble in the…

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I would use the “Merge events with known sources and automatically create subclips” option in your Import > Shot Log Settings.

To modify the ALE, I’d open up the ALE that you created from your master clips in BBEdit. I’d use CMD F to Find and Replace. Enable Grep and enter the following into your find field.

(?<=VA1A2)(Ad)*

Keep the replace field…

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The ALE is tabbed delimited and has three parts: Header, Column & Data. Your text needs to be formatted as UTF-8 and you you need one carriage return after your last data entry or it won’t merge. The data and column are tab delimited.