SRT vs VTT: which subtitle format for documentary delivery?

FCPXML carries edit decisions, clip references, timecodes, roles, and markers. It does not carry media. Here is how Premiere, Resolve, and Avid handle it differently, and where timecode offsets and missing audio come from.

Transcript-based editing means selecting interview clips by reading the words instead of scrubbing through audio. Here is why it dominates modern documentary post and how the workflow runs.

How to handle proper nouns, speaker voice, and over-polish when sending documentary transcripts through machine translation, and when to flag a segment for a human reviewer.