Day Three Editing (Crunch Time)

My client was feeling bold and tightened my deadline. I had to pull the project off the back burner and get to work on music and final editing.

On a Friday, I visited my music guy and together we hashed out an intro, a transitional tune and an outro. It took about 2-3 hours for the music, though admittedly we didn't work very aggressively towards the goal of finishing the project. I really enjoyed the process though. I felt as though I learned quickly what my music guy, Alex, was capable of. I was learning some terminology to accurately communicate what I needed. With more confidence, I was able to get down to exactly what I wanted. It felt good.

Saturday seemed like a great day to take a break from work, project, home and everything. I just took one huge day of rest with movies and junk food. They are soo fulfilling to me. I really enjoy them. It also came back to bite my ass.

Sunday morning, real crunch time was upon me. I was (at least verbally) committed to completing this project by 6:59am Monday morning. I woke up somewhat late, 10ish. I ambled to my PC and sat down to begin the process. My DVD disk drive was non-operational. This meant I couldn't upload the new music to the Vegas program. Also, I wouldn't be able to burn the mastercopies of the finished product. I set into solving problem A. I used another pc to upload and email to myself the music media. It took several attempts to finally get the files transferred. With that, I turned back to the raw editing. It was daunting. I had about 20 minutes of video I must have watched 10 times each. Things began to look similar. Details became less and less important. Audio problems manifested themselves because of my own laziness. Future note says leave it out if it is bad, and come back to it later with fresh eyes and ears.

Well into Monday morning I worked. Around 4am, I just couldn't continue. I had put together something that could have been delivered, but it was far from the quality I want the client to have and think of me with. I went to sleep with the two PCs trying to render the first draft of video.

When I was getting into the later hours, I began working very uneffectively. I would watch the video and notice errors. Instead of pushing pause and at very least noting the error, I just let it run and tried to make a mental list of errors. There were just too many and I kept having to rewatch the video. At twenty minutes a pop, it was just wasted time. I corrected one error at a time and could have done in four views what I barely did in ten.