Doug Graham
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I’m not sure there’s a viable market for wedding editing. Most wedding videographers prefer to edit their own footage. There is a small overflow from backlogged and high-volume videographers, though. Then there’s the walk-in client with amateur footage who wants it edited. These are often far more trouble than they’re worth, since it takes a lot of editing to turn a sow’s ear into even a polyester purse.
A small “boutique style” or “project studio” editing service can be successful, but the competition is fierce from both the upscale and the low-budget “I’ve got a computer and an editing program” ends. You need to have a good demo reel and some references from past projects.
Maybe some small edit studio owners can chime in here. I’m out of my depth, since 95% of my editing is on my own footage.
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It’s interesting to note that the best position to get the vows is with a camera positioned behind the officiant’s left shoulder. Any time you cut from this shot to a camera placed in the seating area or at the back of the church, you’re going to “cross the line”.
To minimize the impact of this, be sure that your shots don’t otherwise match closely…for example, if the altar camera is on a two person head and shoulders closeup, then the back camera should have a full shot of the bride, groom, and officiant, and maybe the best man and maid of honor too, if they are in close.
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Really, Mark? It looks pretty hokey to me.
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A google search on “talent release” or “model release” will bring you a whole lotta examples.
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I’d remove the red lens and just use the IR filter.
The camera is actually more sensitive to IR than to visible red.Regards,
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The term for that effect is “volumetric lighting”, bacause the light rays appear to be actual objects.
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The output quality of Vegas depends almost entirely on the quality of the input. Vegas is quite acceptable for broadcast work, in terms of its output quality.
A lot of the music videos you see were shot on film, not on video. It’ll be difficult to get the same quality with a prosumer (or even a professional) DV camcorder. However, a good 3-CCD prosumer DV camcorder (e.g., Sony VX-2100, Canon XL1s/XL2, Panasonic DVX-100) is capable of producing amazingly good results in the hands of a skilled operator who pays attention to lighting and composition.
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Yeah, definitely check a bit first. “0dB” is different for consumer and pro equipment, which is why your deck has that switch.
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The Sony PVM.
I see that I’ve gotten some people confused with my terminology. 🙂
A “CRT” monitor is any monitor that uses a cathode ray tube to shoot a beam of electrons at a phosphor screen. CRT technology is found in computer monitors, television monitors, and television receivers (a receiver is just a monitor with a tuner for receiving signals off the air or via cable). However, the computer CRT monitor differs from a TV in the way the beam is scanned; it’s progressive for the computer monitor, but interlaced for the TV. Also, the gamma curve for computer monitors is different than for TVs.
An NTSC monitor is any television monitor that displays the NTSC television signal (as opposed to PAL or SECAM). It could be a CRT device or an LCD panel or a projector. So, a Sony PVM monitor would be an “NTSC CRT”.
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No, I meant “NTSC CRT”, just to be sure we were talking about a monitor that was displaying an NTSC signal and using a set of electron guns to do it. A standard TV set is a “CRT”, and so is one of those boxy glass-fronted computer monitors.
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Doug Graham