The jury duty was really most unfortunately timed, and I'm now a week out from my drop-dead date. I feel rather like a handyman my wife engaged a couple of years ago to duplicate an elaborate cabinet door. He presented himself as a master woodworker, and quoted a reasonable estimate, but the job turned out to be the other side of his skill set. I don't think he realized this at the outset, but he certainly understood it at the end, by which time I think he'd actually acquired some chops the hard way. The promised product and the finished product did not quite congrue. We paid the guy the agreed-upon price (although we felt that the door as delivered was markedly inferior to the model) and not his suggested treble-sum ("It took much longer than I thought it would!").
This is rather how I feel about this video project. I blame myself: I've known for a long time that it would be useful to work up some video-editing chops beyond those rudimentary moves I presently possess, and there's no reason I couldn't have diverted some time and energy to this end. Because I have been negligent I realized today that ten hours of image processing from Monday will have to be done over again.
I venture to hope that, like the unfortunate woodworker, I will emerge from an undertaking for which I was woefully underqualified at the outset with a few tricks and techniques I had not troubled to master hitherto.
cordially,