Software failures and Browser Incompatibility

...Posted my narrative this morning, as students wandered across campus blinking with early-morning eyes. They look as if they were torn violently from sleep and turned lose onto the pavement, like mice in a maze.
If that’s how they look just after waking up, how must I look after 60-odd hours of wakefulness? I shudder to imagine.
Of course I could have been finished earlier. One of the problems with an entirely digital studio is that every setting of every parameter for each moment, sound, action, picture, or movie is adjustable. I have found myself spending hours EQ'ing a half-second drum hit, days building video backgrounds that never get used, and an immense amount of time listening to the track, tweaking samples, and rearranging beats.
I have decided, now that my project is online and as done as it will be for the time being, that I wanted to simply make an audio track. I get ahead of myself, biting off huge tasks that sound great and are feasible... but are maybe more suited to personal projects without time limits, or group projects with a division of labor.
Digging through vinyl for one and two second samples is a meditation of sorts. Old records wear their age like a badge of honor, cracks and pops forming the sound into what we recognize as old, recycled, and newly ready to go.
In the course of recording DJ4Q's track, I managed to stumble across a plethora of prospective beats, tunes, and samples. Now I have side projects waiting in the wings, and perhaps a start on the audio project I have coming up.
There is a negative side to this experience as well.
I got back into flash for this project, for the first time since 2001, and ran headfirst into some of the problems that made me stop using it in the first place: flash runs slowly on Macs, I couldn’t export my movie as a QuickTime, the audio would not match for the life of me, flash won't let you scrub the waveform it displays for sounds, the preview button was opening (the hated) Dreamweaver, losing action script inside a symbol in a movie clip in a scene... There are issues.
As I worked my way through the roadblocks, I gave myself an extra headache: I forgot about embedding flash movies within flash movies, so instead of creating a few short animations and linking them together like acid loops or FLPro, I made one very, very long animation, each bit separately adjusted. This is one of the reasons I had beat-matching problems, and why my animation just doesn’t seem to run quite...right.
Well, the whole point of school is to learn, not to already be perfect, so I guess I'm at where I should be. I will definitely continue to work with DJ4Q, and would love to eventually have an entire space for him online, with no connection to my name, my school, etc.
For this particular animation, I will match 4Q's hands to the cuts, as soon as I can find a way to lock the audio/visual timing down.
Check out DJ4Q at ucsu.colorado.edu/~valens/inte.html