I spent most of my time dealing with technical issues, but the fact that I had a comfortable space to be in, made it much easier to deal with. Preparing footage and editing was made more challenging because the formats were a bit unfamiliar, so I had to figure out how best to work with it. The DV videos actually had 4 channels of audio. I realized that my initial edits were wrong because I had converted clips and they had become stereo tracks.This kind of stuff is what you can expect to deal with in the course of a project. It took time to look at all the pieces and then figure out the right way to put it all together. I even put together a tutorial for anyone that may be in a similar situation, dealing with miniDV tapes with multitrack recordings.
Yes, none of this is particularly exciting, but getting the pieces to fit together properly let’s me get to that next stage of making something beautiful.