Quick update, since it's been a week:
I have not been able to get a good wall clock for the inserts, though I have been to three cheap stores and asked a half-dozen people. Apparently people don't really do wall clocks much anymore. Before too long (end of the month?) I will give up and just use the ugly stills that I found on the web (for the rough cut that I print some DVDs of). I do have one more avenue of pursuit (a listserv at my Quaker meeting), and I haven't given up on stopping by thrift stores as I see them, but I'm not going to look forever. When/if I secure a professional editor to make a fine cut, I will get the real deal -- even if I have to pay twenty whole dollars (ongoing unemployment makes that a no-go these days). I'm also not going to do the montage of pain, I think, before I burn the DVDs. Right now I have some still pix as filler, and they will do for now. That's another thing that I will just figure out if/when the prospect of getting the movie ALL fixed up is real.
I have spent the last few days going back through the rough cut and adjusting the audio. This is taking much longer than I expected!! It is, fortunately or unfortunately, making things much better, though, I think, so it's hard to stop. What I'm doing is adjusting the levels ("volume") from clip to clip on the timeline so that when people actually watch this on their TVs, the volume isn't going up and down and up and down all over the place in a way that makes it very hard to watch the movie. Some of our recording -- mostly just the exterior stuff -- is not that great (traffic & wind make for loud background noise), and I can only fix so much, but, the interior conversations now sound much more "normal."
I had thought to be burning the DVDs and mailing them off to actors in the next day or two, but now it looks like it will be another week, so I can get this audio improved.
Meanwhile, here's a picture of the ideal clock:
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