About wedding highlights

[icychilled]

I can't seem to wrap my head around this matter about Wedding Highlights...

Do you guys carry a laptop around with you so you edit somewhere in the hotel or something before the wedding dinner or do you guys rush back home or the office to edit?

Haven't done highlights before but I'm pretty confident i can churn out the video if it's just editing time included but after taking into consideration traveling time and etc etc...

How do you guys do your highlights?

 

[Jemhadar]

Rush back home to edit, very stressful and time constraint.

 

[drumma]

I can't seem to wrap my head around this matter about Wedding Highlights...

Do you guys carry a laptop around with you so you edit somewhere in the hotel or something before the wedding dinner or do you guys rush back home or the office to edit?

Haven't done highlights before but I'm pretty confident i can churn out the video if it's just editing time included but after taking into consideration traveling time and etc etc...

How do you guys do your highlights?

i think this applies for photographers and videographers as well. some nice couples would provide some boot space so that u can leave your laptop in there from the start of the day til reaching the hotel so that u can edit from there. if not, i'll drive and leave the laptop in the car. haha yes, traveling back and forth takes up way too much time!

 

[icychilled]

icic wow because i don't have a laptop and i was afraid that rushing back home to edit would take up too much time huh?

if i take up any jobs that require highlights most likely have to rush back home man

 

[icychilled]

Rush back home to edit, very stressful and time constraint.

But always managed to deliver the video? Haha...

 

[Jemhadar]

Yup, always deliver on time, provided I'm release no later than 1pm.

 

[icychilled]

icic. cool. you just bolstered my confidence a little. Haha...

 

[engr]

i have done it in 4.5hrs before. Completed at 3.30pm n done at 8pm. But my record was 3.5hrs but that was only up to gatecrashing. Better to have 6hrs for safety to take care of travelling time. Have to watch out especially if u offering 11hr package, cuz they exepct u to be there by 7pm which means u have to be off by 1pm latest.

 

[icychilled]

Icic. 6 hours seems like a pretty decent time frame inclusive of traveling. 1 hour would be taken up for uploading the tape. Another hour for traveling just in case? Left with 3.5hrs to edit and half an hour to burn and test etc i guess?

 

[alternus]

Do plan more time if you have multi-cam setups for say, church weddings. Or if you end up with 2-3 hrs worth of footage...

 

[jopel]

I can't seem to wrap my head around this matter about Wedding Highlights...

Do you guys carry a laptop around with you so you edit somewhere in the hotel or something before the wedding dinner or do you guys rush back home or the office to edit?

Haven't done highlights before but I'm pretty confident i can churn out the video if it's just editing time included but after taking into consideration traveling time and etc etc...

How do you guys do your highlights?

i prefer to work in the hotel room, usually the couple won't mind, with my laptop.

 

[KCBox]

May be your all guys left out 1 important fact!

Tapeless Video Recording Solutions

I have a few friends who using HD recording. This will save you a lot of time on playback capture. Direct record as .avi file. Once is done. Just copy to your HD drive and edit.

1 hour would be taken up for uploading the tape
That is way too much time to capture. 45mins MAX. Capture only needed for hightlights.

1pm is the target all done in the Morning section. Sometime event end late 2pm ++. You have to decided stay or go off with some missing shots.

If is late. Than you have to go for (plane B). I have end up 3.30pm and Highlights at West to East Expo dinner Hall. I still can made it in time. (1 man show)

End of the day is all on your skill of editing. Which 1 is good to show which is NOT. Opening and Ending. Just a tips on HighLights.

Always prepare NEW project file standby for edit. Opening names and music ready before the date. Once done, the day come just do the editing and cut to DVD.

That is what I do. The rest Im not sure. May be can share some tips.:thumbsup::thumbsup:

 

[icychilled]

I guess it will be great to have just 45mins of footage, but wouldn't that mean you cannot film the whole process of the games and what not?

And by HD cams that record direct as a .avi file you mean the panasonic cams with the p2 cards?

I don't remember any other prosumer cameras that can do that as well leh... unless i suaku la...haha...

 

[KCBox]

I guess it will be great to have just 45mins of footage, but wouldn't that mean you cannot film the whole process of the games and what not?

And by HD cams that record direct as a .avi file you mean the panasonic cams with the p2 cards?

I don't remember any other prosumer cameras that can do that as well leh... unless i suaku la...haha...

Not that 45mins footage. What I mean is using 45mins time slot to capture all the shots that is needed to be playback. Not capture the hole tape. Pick Scene Capture.

HD is not HD Cam. HD is Hard Drive like SONY DR-60 or Firestore. P2 cam can made it fast, but cost higher for P2 card.

 

[alternus]

I use the Sony Z7 with CF recording. Able to transfer 2-3 hrs of morning footage under 30mins. Just did a wedding highlights yesterday, with bridal makeup, gatecrashing, etc. with church ending at 3pm. Used 3 cams at the church (2 CF, 1 tape). Tapeless recording really helps a lot when you want to produce highlights.

 

[Jemhadar]

Yes, Tapeless recording is the way to go.

Bringing a laptop pc to edit in hotel is good.
I prefer to edit at home where I've a backup pc.

Currently still shoot in SD and looking at the Sony MRCIK for my cam.

 

[BMPhoto]

Yup, I'm for the tapeless solution and edit on Laptop at hotel setup.

Just did one last Sat, glad to have the DR60's help, else dead meat. Got it rented from a nice guy from Camwerkz before this event. Managed to make it ready at 7pm when the event ended at around 2pm. Save up so much time on transferring and travelling. I'm also waiting for the Sony MRC1k to be my eventual tapeless solution moving forward.

However, one drawback, I usually shoot in HD and deliver in SD. But the tapeless solution could only capture in HD when I shoot in HD since neither my cam nor the device has the downgrade function during capture. Hence I need to edit in HD and output in SD, which takes longer processing time than edit in SD (downgrading is possible in tape transfer). Maybe someone out there has better solution or workflow. Thanks.

 

[alternus]

However, one drawback, I usually shoot in HD and deliver in SD. But the tapeless solution could only capture in HD when I shoot in HD since neither my cam nor the device has the downgrade function during capture. Hence I need to edit in HD and output in SD, which takes longer processing time than edit in SD (downgrading is possible in tape transfer). Maybe someone out there has better solution or workflow. Thanks.

On this pt, perhaps you can try turning on the "HD downconvert to SD" feature. This feature should affect the i-Link output. If your HDD recording device is connected via firewire, this may just do the trick. Then again, different cam has diff features...

On my Sony Z7, I can capture HDV m2t on the tape, and SD avi on the CF card concurrently. Of course I can also capture SD on both media concurrently, and HD on both media concurrently.

 

[Jemhadar]

How much you paid for the DR60?

 

[icychilled]

Does the DR60 work with the Z7? I see the website like never mention...