Editing a Spanish Video

Hello everyone,

I work for a small ad agency as the video editor. We're doing a series of videos for a major university. We're producing an English and a Spanish version of the project. The two versions are not exactly the same. Each includes testimonials from various talking heads, and what is said in the English version is not the same as what is said in the Spanish version.

Now, I've worked on videos in Spanish before. Usually they were safety videos that have an English and a Spanish version. The Spanish v/o closely matched the English v/o and the visuals were identical. Basically the edit was simple, however, I still had to sit with an interperator to put it together since I don't speak a lick of Spanish.

This time around, it is definately a lot different. There will be hours and hours of unscripted content in Spanish, and I'm expected to sit with an interperator to edit the entire thing. Working with an interperator always slows down my usually quick workflow. Being as complex as this current project is, I think it's unfair to expect me to edit the Spanish version of the video. I am being unreasonable, or is this kind of thing usually outsourced to a Spanish-speaking production team?

-Aaron