I had it just yesterday and today. 2 months ago or so, happened to have promised a friend to handle the sound for her graduation project, an approx 20 mins short. all dialog edits, sound design, mixing and what not. did the set sound recordings myself as well so I was convinced that it would go smooth, it was a very tiny project after all... then, she ended up taking new shots without proper sound equipment, and using those in the actual edit and I ended up with nothing but bad camera sounds mostly.. everything got delayed... the picture wasn't locked until a week ago, and I only had 3 full (12+ hours non stop) days to work on it from scratch.. whats crazy is that still today she talks about changing the final edit, and getting new music in. wanted to back off long ago when the delays got introduced but couldn't. so stupid. by the time I got the exports and raw materials, it was too late. it turned out the fcp project was all messed up. all kinds of sync problems. manual adjustments on my side before even being able to work on the sound.. finally finished a mix an hour ago (if you can call it one) and sent it in. but I can assure you the only time I felt this much fed up, tired and so terribly frustrated was 2 years ago, during a 1 year project where all the team members got burned out. anyhow, premiere is tomorrow. I should be relieved but I dunno what to expect. somehow survived but got damaged both physically and mentally... oh and did I say mention that this was for free.....?! never ever again.

I had it just yesterday and today. 2 months ago or so, happened to have promised a friend to handle the sound for her graduation project, an approx 20 mins short. all dialog edits, sound design, mixing and what not. did the set sound recordings myself as well so I was convinced that it would go smooth, it was a very tiny project after all... then, she ended up taking new shots without proper sound equipment, and using those in the actual edit and I ended up with nothing but bad camera sounds mostly.. everything got delayed... the picture wasn't locked until a week ago, and I only had 3 full (12+ hours non stop) days to work on it from scratch.. whats crazy is that still today she talks about changing the final edit, and getting new music in. wanted to back off long ago when the delays got introduced but couldn't. so stupid. by the time I got the exports and raw materials, it was too late. it turned out the fcp project was all messed up. all kinds of sync problems. manual adjustments on my side before even being able to work on the sound.. finally finished a mix an hour ago (if you can call it one) and sent it in. but I can assure you the only time I felt this much fed up, tired and so terribly frustrated was 2 years ago, during a 1 year project where all the team members got burned out. anyhow, premiere is tomorrow. I should be relieved but I dunno what to expect. somehow survived but got damaged both physically and mentally... oh and did I say this was for free.....?! never ever again.