WATCH ALONG | THE SARAH JANE ADVENTURES | 3x11 | The Gift Part 1

Heads up for this episode and the next one...

A glitch happened while recording this episode that I didn't know about until I finished the recording and got a notification from my audio recording program that the audio dropped out in two places (meaning, it stopped recording two different times during the episode). Both instances were for just a few seconds.

During the first instance (about 22 minutes into the video), you'll see my video freeze for a few seconds and then catch back up. My audio and video are recorded in two separate programs so, whatever the issue was, it affected both programs at the same time but didn't affect the episode as I watching it.

During the second instance of the audio dropping out, the video was fine and I wasn't talking at the time so it didn't really matter.

BUT... I've spent the last little bit trying to figure out what caused these issues, and I don't have any answers yet. I have plenty of storage on my computer and I was using the same programs I always use (and had no other programs running).

It could have just been some random one-time fluke, but I don't want to record the next episode (especially since it's the series finale) until I've tested some things out some more and am a bit more confident there won't be similar (or worse) issues during the next recording.

Hopefully, I'll get it figured out soon and can get episode 3.12 out today still (and not also have a delay with tomorrow's Doctor Who episodes). I'll keep you posted.

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A Few Notes:

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• If you're based in the UK (or using a UK streaming site), here are instructions for how to get your copy to sync with mine.
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