Losing face, after a great loss.

requiett · Post by **requiett** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 10:25 pm

I lost my face once. Luckily doctors were able to reattach it.

The Wired Knight · Post by **The Wired Knight** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 1:50 am

I almost did because Premiere got a terminal error while working on a video and couldn't stay open that long so it couldn't export or anything. I essentially took notes on exactly where all the footage came from and its timing and had to remake the video to keep it alive. Extended the editing process by about 20 hours.

Chiikaboom · Post by **Chiikaboom** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 2:50 am

mm i lost my chrno crusade vid that i spent 2-3 months on. I had to restore my comp for some reason and when i backed it up on my sisters hard drive, it wouldnt copy back onto my computer properly =\ Why i insisted on finishing it after i restored my comp, ill never know.

Ayanefan · Post by **Ayanefan** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 7:09 am

My project file for Skuld Vs Urd got corrupt near the last render because I stupidly did a change in the AVS file that I was using in Premiere. It took me days to piece together snippets here and there from rendered files. The video just didn't feel the same after that.

CrackTheSky · Post by **CrackTheSky** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 4:07 am

This, thankfully, has never happened to me (yet). The closest I've come was on a video I had worked several months on, near the end of completing it I accidentally deleted a whole video track in my editing program and then saved without noticing, closed the program, and when I went to preview some part of the video I noticed something was missing...

I spent maybe five hours going through and replacing every scene I had accidentally deleted. Thankfully this wasn't nearly as bad as it could have been, and the video turned out decent in the end.

With other videos, I have either deleted/neglected to save my final lossless file after the video has been completed and uploaded. Not a huge deal, but it has prevented me from sending a video or two to a contest I may have wanted to participate in.

DriftRoot · Post by **DriftRoot** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:15 am

huh, I'm so used to catastrophic AMV tragedies that I've almost forgotten the horror of the first time it happens. There's a very good reason it took me almost four years to finish an AMV:

-Two hard drive failures - one my internal, one my external upon which all my internal stuff was supposedly safely backed up. Now I have three drives, two for backup, because I don't trust 'em.

- Five computer reformats that bunged up my project files beyond redemption, had to make everything over from scratch. Haven't gotten around this problem, yet.

- Tons of unexplained Premiere crashes that foiled untold hours worth of work - and by untold I mean hundreds. Third HD and more RAM resolved crashing issues.

I've never lost an AMV "masterpiece," just unbelievable amounts of work that will never be regained, but once I did lose 8 months worth of graphic design projects just as I was about to put together my portfolio. Fortunately, I'd backed it all up on DVD THREE DAYS before. I still tremble at the memory of what might have been.

mexicanjunior · Post by **mexicanjunior** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 12:51 pm

This happened to me twice:

My Soulseek video was lost in 2003 due to something weird causing my ppj's to just vanish. Luckily I was able to find an old project file a few years later and still had all the source, so I ripped it and threw it back into Premiere. Fortunately for me, it came up close enough to the original timeline wise to finish although it didn't end up being as good as I originally wanted.

I had a very cool video called Sportscenter that I was making in 2004. For some reason, some of the footage I was usingstopped loading in Premiere, causing it to crash and I eventually got so fed up with messing with it (and had a ton of VOBS laying on my HD being unused), that I scrapped the whole thing about 1:30 in. It was very sad for me since I really loved how that video was coming out and I was having tons of fun making it. After that, I think I lost alot of the motivation to make anything as ambitious as that video was. I still continued to make a few videos after but nothing I knew would take as much out of me as that video did...