Angry at Self - Early Access Fail (Patreon)

Guys, I can't recall the last time I was this upset with myself. After working for 2 weeks on the main body of the episode, I had a simple plan to film short bookend hosting shots of me in the room, then edit everything together in one day, just in time for early patron posting.

But I made a terrible, inexcusable rookie mistake. Because of the whole tutorial parody thing (explained in a $3 update), this episode runs at 30 frames per second (as opposed to the movie-like 24fps I usually stick to). BUT I FORGOT TO SWITCH THE CAMERA TO THAT FRAMERATE WHEN I FILMED THE BOOKENDS.

Now, I know most humans in the world don't even register this as a thing it's possible to be upset about, and those who do don't think it's that big a deal because you can simply up-convert footage from 24fps to 30fps in a number of automated ways...

But this IS a big deal when VFX are involved. You can't really track or composite footage that has these up-conversion artifacts. Suffice it to say, instead of simply filming and editing a couple ofshots, I had to spend ~5 extra hours painstakingly massaging them into having 25% more temporal resolution, just so I could BEGIN working.

Anyway, I'm writing because I worked 'till 4am last night and have now gotten up to continue. The video will go up by 3PM today, as scheduled, but I've failed to get it ready for early access to you patrons.

I'm really sorry. I will of course make it up to you by making some other reward available at $2 level.

I'm also going to find something expensive I can THROW THROUGH MY WINDOW RIGHT NOW.

Cheers <3