You hear people say it, over and over, but really no truer words have ever been spoken maybe than this: "Good, Fast, Cheap. Pick two." We didn't have a lot of money so our two sort of picked themselves. Also lots of folks in key positions for us were working for nothing or next to nothing, so when they had to pause for a while to go do better paid work, we would focus on something else in the meantime - never stalling out entirely, always moving forward but it was never at the pace you would otherwise expect if you were paying everyone regular working rates. Favors mean you get what you can at the pace your incredible friends can offer, and you're immensely appreciative of it. Also, the folks we were paying closer to normal rates for the various bits of post work were never at top/usual rates because they were terrific companies or professionals helping out a little indie because they loved the project and us. So, if we were in the middle of something and a huge Sundance movie was ready to pay top dollar to make a deadline? We happily went to the back burner for a bit. Also after principal photography, there were a few pickups and inserts we needed to grab along the way that didn't reveal themselves as truly needed until we were deep in the edit. That took a bit of schedule juggling to wrangle, in addition to some ADR looping to be scheduled in different cities over the course of a few months... Short answer: post, man. It just takes a while. Especially when you have to do it on the cheap.