To start, my composer kept pushing back the time that he would deliver the final score to me all the way until Sunday night (when my film was due by 8am the next day) due to other projects he was working on. Normally this would not have stressed me out so much because I did have copies of the music that were 95% done, but when I downloaded those to my computer instead of watching them through Google Drive, the music was just a loud buzzing noise. I have no idea why, but I didn't have time to figure it out.
When I finally got my music, After Effects decided she wasn't going to be nice to me (as you can see below). She would start playback and then music would cut out, even if I played it at the lowest quality playback settings. This has been an ongoing issue with storage and RAM on my laptop, so it was only a miracle when I fixed it and didn't have issues through the rest of the production process, but STILL. She decided to hate on me in the last moment possible. I can't even begin to tell you how many times I had to restart After Effects and my computer in just a few hours. It wouldn't even let me change the color of my title, but you know what, I was able to get my captions done and that's all that matters. And after all of this was said and done, I sat on a 7 hour export time only to realize after that my captions were too big, so that was just the nail in the coffin at that point. Needless to say, there will be a new computer in my future and I'm excited for that.
If there is anything I learned from this film, it is patience and just going with the flow. Things will go wrong and things will go right. In the end, you will get the product you worked for and that's all I could ever ask for.
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