I was expecting the exercise to be pretty hard, so I was pleasantly surprised that the footage mostly came together. I think it also helped that I had a music selection already made, and could shape it to that. The first two segments I put together serendipitously had motion that moved beautifully between them, so that was really encouraging.

What I had trouble with was that I'd not read the instructions properly, and so only realized that I needed two music versions when the first was done. A reminder to read the instructions properly! Six seconds is also a pretty long time, especially for music video footage, so that was a little limiting in what I was able to put together, and I couldn't quite keep to a 100% red palette. However, on the flip-side, all the quick cuts of music videos meant that each six second segment really feels like a lot more, especially for music videos with scene changes.

My biggest struggle is with my computer, as even shotcut seems to maybe be a little resource-intensive for it. I did have a browser open at the time, thought most of the tabs were "off" using auto-discard, so I'm hoping that having only shotcut open will be enough of an edge to allow me to work with more cuts in later exercises.

I need to catch up on watching all the pechakuchas that have already been posted; so exciting!