I spent all day working on today's Electrified video. Did as much research as I could. Even spent more time than usual editing with some cool visuals and royalty free music
I go to export as usual but Premiere freezes. I sit there and click around for about ten minutes waiting for it. Nothing. The export screen just won't show up
So I quit Premiere because I had the project saved and figured a reset would open it right back up and everything would be fine
As it turns out, the freeze during export likely corrupted or wiped the edited sequence and that empty/broken state was written into the project. Including the all of the auto-save files
I have tried every recovery technique imaginable with the help of Grok (which is the best troubleshooting assistant I've found to date) - to no avail
Incredibly frustrating/disappointing. I don't have it in me to edit that all over again (yes, I still do all of my own editing)
So that's why there will be no upload tonight 🙃
But rather than spending the night frustrated, I'm going to let it go and enjoy time with my wife. Even when things don't go your way, how you react is always your choice. Life is often just about learning to play the hand you're dealt well and remembering that most of the time, it's not that real