Originally Posted by Jason Bowers (Post 806699)

Great job Jason
Good to see a fast edit once in a while. The flow was awesome. What cams are you using for this? again great work.

Originally Posted by Ethan Cooper (Post 806758)

Couple questions:
- Everything seems so well lit all the time. Is this due to lots of windows on location or are you bringing in supplemental lighting? If so, what are you lighting interiors with?

For the preps, the hotel resort was simply beautifully lit with large floor to ceiling windows. But that's the exception. Ninety percent of the time, we use a 300w color corrected "cold" light for fill.

It's acceptable here to place lights on stands in churches and receptions. We use 2 x 800w Arris, diffused, corrected and bounced.

- The color correction work was clean and consistent, are you going into these weddings with a pre-determined look and dialing it in on the cameras or are you adding it in post? If in post, what plugins are you using that render fast enough for an SDE?

The "look" is achieved in two ways. First, we have tweaked picture profiles for our FX1s (we shoot SD). We then grade it further in Adobe Premiere using FilmFX (light years faster than MB). Their presets are awesome to begin with (emulating various film stock) but I've managed to cook up some of our own.

You are correct, sometimes, before the edit (sometimes during), listening to the music, checking the feel of the video, I decide which way to go in terms of coloring. I might do something I recently watched on TV or the movies, or perhaps a striking picture, or something that will go well with the music. I was intrigued with your question and recalled my favorites - crossprocessed, BW with a hint of blue or brown, oversaturated, and desaturated.

- On average, how long do you have to edit these SDE's?
anywhere from between 1.30 to 3. Depends on how close the reception is to the ceremony. This one was particularly tight, I think I had two fifteen to do it (a chunk of it was done in the ceremony during the homily).

- I'm assuming you pull your SDE footage from firestores or something like that. How do you deal with multiple camera's footage, or is there a dedicated SDE shooter and you only have to worry about footage from one person?

We don't use HDs because I cannot take on the additional weight of the devices. It cramps our handheld shooting. We capture tapes in appropriate intervals from three cameras. The third one shoots just very little (balcony or glide shots during the walk, extra "MTV" footage at the church and the formals).

***EDIT***
I just noticed the photos in the book she gave him. How cool is that?? When my wife finally decides to leave me, I'm moving to your country to find a wife.
Oh, and I've corrected my spelling mistakes in the original post... maybe I need to wake up fully before posting next time.

Originally Posted by Michael Wisniewski (Post 807056)

Hey Jason great work. My mom's management company designed and runs Discovery Shores, I'll pass the video clip on to her, I think she'll like it.

Including Boy Bawang was genius!