Thank God these forums come equipped with a rage catcher (i.e. this thread).
Today, the last day of school, after WEEKS of stressing about a video project for AP European History, having FINALLY FINISHED MY PART (screenwriter (done way long ago), actor/director (finished two weeks ago), editor (done yesterday)), I thought that the main editor/cameraman had pulled through and was done with his part of the project. I drop off a flash drive with my exported video at his house, see his progress -- he's working on the beginning part of the video.
So I think 'that's fine, he procrastinates and finishes close to deadlines. It'll be a long night for him, but it'll work out'. Hah, right. This morning before school I receive this text: "Hey a bit of a crisis occured last night....premiere crashed and deleted your video (i don't know exactly how). Is it ok if my dad comes by and picks up the flash drive?". Okay, it'll work, he'll get the flash drive, put my video in (which, I might add, was fully done and needed no extra editing) and export it.
PSYCHE! That's the wrong number assumed competency level! Turns out his computer crashed again, so he had to coach his dad through putting it together via text.
And that turned out as you might expect.
Okay, we're in the class right now, but if we have my brother (who actually knows how to edit film) pick up the external hard drive and put it together on my computer, it could work. And it did! Huzza--
Wait.
What.
The video was done, it starts with an intro (fancily done by my partner), goes into my part, has music, flashbacks, smooth transitions, subtitles -- and then goes back to his part. The part he cobbled together at the last minute (translation: everything he edited except the intro). It had no music, abrupt and sudden switches between scenes, no headings (which were rather important, seeing as we were making a video about time travel), misspelled words in the two places that actually had text (BTW, there were ONLY TWO PLACES THAT HAD TEXT in the part he edited), scenes missing (plot-related important ones, I might add), screwed up credits, and poorly done effects (one thing I originally thought he excelled at).
In summary, and this is coming from a person who nearly never swears, fuck cooperation. I'm never letting someone I don't have absolute faith in take on a leadership role in any group I'm in again.