Well depending on the camera that is used on our shoots and the finishing facility, for this particular project we needed to do an EDL.
Coming from an Avid based workflow, where all I did was save a bin copy as for finishing, exporting an EDL with multiple layers seemed somewhat odd to me. The whole process was very confusing to me, and seemed like it was way more complicated than it needed to be. Plus it didn’t help that I had a handful of other AEs around me all telling me different ways to do it.
I was also confused with the editor’s timeline. I couldn’t figure out which shots were the shots being used or shots that were just on the sequence and not deleted. It was a pretty messy timeline. Thanks for the advice guys!