In the wise words of Ron Swanson: Don’t half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing.
Earlier this week, I was too lazy to go into uni and book a time slot at the edit suites, hence I had to resort to find a way of getting Premiere on my laptop for the weekend. Reluctant to pay the fee for the Creative Cloud, I made the decision to download a (slightly dodgy) trial version of Premiere, in the hopes that it will last me until the end of the semester. Turns out this was a rookie mistake.
Fast forward to Sunday night, when I tried to reopen my project to export for the mini screening during Monday’s class. To my horror, the thing I’ve managed to avoid throughout my high school and uni years – the file wouldn’t open. After repeated tries, I kept getting the same message: “This project contained a sequence that could not be opened”. Annnd three hours of solid work down the drain.
Hence the lesson: don’t be lazy and take shortcuts, invest in proper versions of software, always save your work in multiple forms and back up everything else associated at least twice, and spare the two extra hours moping while having to re-edit an entire sequence again in iMovie.
