Awesome answers as always, guys! I've run into more problems, or rather odd things that I can't explain.
When i first tried to render the video out it was skipping and acting like a busted vhs tape. I got the idea to change the settings from 24 to 60 and it appears to work fine now. however, it still looks like this some times in the timeline:
Why? also, when i rendered it out there was still 2 seconds of footage in the middle that skipped and got fuzzy. but the rest was totally fine. why? i tried replaying it a bunch of times and the fuzz was a little different each time so it might have only been my player but that still doesn't explain why it happened. any thoughts?
EDIT: now it's happening again despite the fact that I rendered in 60 fps. I am at a complete loss with this. Please suggest things that might fix this, in the meanwhile I'm gonna finish the video and upload it. maybe it has fixed itself by then, if not I'll put the video on private and show you guys.