Looking for FCP - Avid - FCP workflow suggestion

I work with FCP on projects where we capture an entire film (two reels, about 20GB DVPal), then edit this down to 30 or so sec spots and then online at Blackmagic 10bit. Right now we have some freelancers who will be working on their own computers at home using Avid Express HD on Mac laptops, and then delivering us an edl of their cut. I was just wondering if anyone knew of a way where we could capture the film here and then transfer to an external drive for the freelancer to cut the promo that would work in Avid. I gave them a clip captured at DVPal to test, but it took over 5 minutes to convert a clip to OMF?? for use in Avid, and the clip was only 1min30 long, which isn't much use when we will be giving them a 90 min film. I know this seems like an odd way to do it, but we're trying to create the least amount of work at both ends.
I don't know anything about Avid but figured since the workflow begins in FCP, I should post here, and any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Oh, and Automatic Duck isn't possible due to cost restraints, not sure if it would help anyway.
Dual 2GHz PowerPC G5   Mac OS X (10.4.5)   XRaid Final Cut Studio

Since avid uses the OMFI format then there is no easy direct way to xfer media between the two. You can take the diged files from FCP (which are quicktime) and import them into Avid but they are transcoded to OMFI and I am almost certain (but not 100% - and not at my Avid this month so I can't test) that you loose timecode.
The couple of time I've had to do just this I had the material dubbed to DVCam for capture in Avid. Simple, cheap. Timecode is fine. Capture in Avid, make the edit, export EDL (taking care not to use fx and things that won't transfer), then recapture from originals in FCP. Good luck.

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