after much hassle and time and conversion and yadda yadda i was left with a huge .avi file with the video, a huge .mov file with the audio, which i cut and pasted together hoping it would line up right and exported to .mp4. this took FOREVER.
audio didn't line up. no problem. extract audio. cut, trim, paste to fit, etc. check. beginning looks good. save as to a new complete movie. Wait. wait. wait.... "can't save movie." fsck!
that's when after 2 days i said fsck this and reclaimed the 15GB of HD space i was eating up with this pain-in-the-@$$ process.
please, for the love of god, code something better, someone, please!