Spent 6 hours trying to fix a video export glitch that was just a file naming issue

I was editing a 20 minute review video all day Thursday and kept getting this weird stutter in the export. After reinstalling my editing software and even re-recording some clips, I finally noticed my project file had a weird symbol in its name. Turns out Windows was choking on the colon I put in the title. Has anyone else lost a whole evening to something this stupid?

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graygonzalez29d ago

Had a buddy spend three hours troubleshooting his stream audio. Mic was dead silent on stream but fine in Discord. Replaced cables, reinstalled OBS, the whole deal. Turned out he muted the wrong audio source in his streaming software from a previous setup. Felt so bad for him but I laughed pretty hard.

nora_dixon28d ago

Oh man, that's brutal. My buddy once spent a whole evening messing with his audio settings only to find out he had his headset plugged into the wrong port the whole time. Felt like a total goofball when he finally spotted it.