I Looooove Video Editing.

     Note the extreme sarcasm.

     Anyway. So this week I've been working on my final product -- a drawing of all four band members of Walk the Moon. I've been video-taping each part of the drawing, and I plan to make a time lapse video for each person.

     I've been using two SD cards (one 8 GB and the other 16), because my video files have not been able to fit on one card. For my first part of the drawing (the drummer, Sean), I imported the video files from both SD cards without trouble, saved them in iPhoto, and went on with my life.

     Then I tried to import the next videos. I imported the files without problems from the first card, and then put the next SD card in the computer and went away from the computer. Three hours later, when I came back, iPhoto was displaying a message: "Delete or Keep Files?" Since I needed to clear the SD card to use it for the next set of videos, I clicked delete. Little did I know that iPhoto was going to stop working.

     I was stuck. I had clicked "Delete Files", the import wasn't complete, and iPhoto wasn't responding. I crossed my fingers and force-quit. After reopening iPhoto, I discovered a severe lack of sixty minutes of video.

     So one temper tantrum, six hours, and five video-recovery programs later, I still lack my videos. (Though I did actually manage to recover one of the files -- only problem is, there's no image (just blackness), and the audio (which I wouldn't have used anyway) is mostly static. So I guess that doesn't really count as recovering the file.)

     On the bright side, nothing affected my videos from my drawing of Sean, so here's that time lapse video:

Sean Time Lapse from Annie G. on Vimeo.

     The song used in the background is Tete-a-Tete by (of course) Walk the Moon.

     I will hopefully have the other videos completed and uploaded by tomorrow, but I still have to do that biorhythms project (yaay precalc), so we'll see. And I'm not giving up on these videos. I will find them. Somehow.

     Moral of the story: NEVER delete video files (or any files, for that matter), until you're absolutely, 100% positive that they are saved elsewhere.

     Update: Turns out iPhoto didn't actually delete the videos from my SD card -- it's just that the iPhoto software hides files it thinks it has already imported. So they were on my SD card the whole time. *facepalm*

     So yeah, that video will be here soon.

     (And on the topic of the drawing and genius project itself: it's going well, and I'm nearly done. I will post pictures tomorrow.)