Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
August 19th, 2015, 09:10 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 6,205
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
August 18th, 2015, 05:36 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 6,205
Re: Optimum length for a Wedding Video
I'm going down the route for all future bookings of offering a choice as to what they want. This is a continuation of an experiment I began recently where I break out the editing as a separate item....
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
August 18th, 2015, 10:42 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,786
Beach Wedding, advice needed.
Next weekend, I'm headed South to the coast for a beach wedding.
I've confirmed the ceremony is out in the sand while the reception is up at a concrete pavilion.
Anyone have any advice or...
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Forum: Nikon Photo for HD Video
August 18th, 2015, 10:36 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 7,801
Re: D750 Video Workout
Thanks Dan!
A complete listing of all gear and specific challenges at this one are in the Vimeo Description on Vimeo.
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Forum: Nikon Photo for HD Video
August 13th, 2015, 10:21 AM
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Replies: 76
Views: 167,051
Perseid Timelapse
Used the interval timer last night for the first time. Got a few!
I was super impressed with the battery life of the EN EL15.
I started at 10:00PM and it last until 2:30AM! I put a new battery...
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
August 6th, 2015, 08:19 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 2,145
Re: American tradition
Not so much a tradition... not everyone does it. At least not in my area (or maybe just my weddings. lol)
I say for me, it's more like 1 in 10 that do the gift... and in 15 years, I've never had...
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Forum: Sony XDCAM PMW-F3 CineAlta
August 4th, 2015, 07:39 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 4,652
Pick up a second F3 if you need one.
I was actually at B&H looking around for an FS100 and I noticed they have been discontinued it looks like... did some searching on Sony and it looks like Sony is in the midst of a big discount promo...
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
July 23rd, 2015, 04:26 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 3,058
Re: Email Scam
LOL... yeah my phone has been receiving texts and I've gotten crazy emails like this a lot in the past 4-6 weeks.
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Forum: Nikon Photo for HD Video
July 23rd, 2015, 08:56 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 7,801
Re: D750 Video Workout
You can most definitely do a manual WB using a card, and ideally I'd be using my DSC Labs one shot for WB... but on wedding day, I'm finding that unless in some extreme situation (like inside a...
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
July 21st, 2015, 11:53 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 2,114
Re: 4K experiment this weekend!
I have the X1000 footage from the ceremony. The church was moderately dark and the gain was pushed high. I was not running the camera, my second shooter was using the remote control app on his phone....
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
July 15th, 2015, 04:29 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 2,114
Re: 4K experiment this weekend!
I can't wait to try it out. He says it's about the same size as our old Canon GL1s, which I thought were just about the perfect size for weddings.
Menu is a bit clunky. He said he was impressed...
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
July 15th, 2015, 04:09 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 2,114
4K experiment this weekend!
One of my second shooters just picked up a Panasonic x1000 from some local auction place for $1400.
Everything works and it's in brand new condition. We're going to use it at my wedding shoot this...
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
July 14th, 2015, 03:29 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 2,018
Re: 70-200mm lens
I use my 70-200 on a tripod at the reception for sure. Usually have my Nikon Coolpix A on a bracket that is shooting the dance floor wide.
General rule of thumb is, if on a tripod, VR IS OS should...
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Forum: 360 Panoramic / Spherical + AR & VR
July 9th, 2015, 06:52 AM
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Replies: 14
Views: 8,032
Re: Next big wedding trend -- VR?
We are currently looking to go down this route as a novelty add on item. Personally I think the market is still for story telling type videos, but this is definitely a cool add-on.
One of my...
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
July 8th, 2015, 01:23 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 3,823
Re: camera slider
I have a 501 plate attached to the bottom of mine. My slides are usually pretty short and involve going over the center of the slider, so I don't usually have any real movement problems.
I got a...
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
July 8th, 2015, 09:08 AM
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Replies: 16
Views: 3,823
Re: camera slider
I got a 30" Konova K3.
Now that I've had it a couple years... I wish I had gotten a smaller one.
24" or so would be better IMO.
Is it essential? Well, it's the easiest IMO to incorporate...
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
July 8th, 2015, 09:05 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,881
Re: Speaking of lights...
I am concerned to a degree about the reception hall because the MOB told me yesterday that they invited 500 people to the wedding, and expect around 50%... so at 250, I know this particular venue is...
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
July 7th, 2015, 06:17 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,881
Re: Speaking of lights...
I don't know why the pic is sideways. It looked fine when it was selected to upload.
Anyways, yeah, this is an umbrella softbox. So it folds up super small and the entire assembly takes about 5...
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
July 7th, 2015, 10:28 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,881
Speaking of lights...
Here's my new reception lighting setup for cake cuts, bouquet and garter toss, and wherever else I can use it.
An $18 Neweer umbrella softbox on a stand with a TorchLED inside.
This thing...
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Forum: Panasonic LUMIX LX / FZ / ZS Series
July 3rd, 2015, 06:43 AM
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Replies: 203
Views: 45,621
Re: Anyone using the FZ1000 for weddings?
Colors looked pretty good on that last clip - maybe a bit over saturated for me personally. WB was a little all over the place as well, but overall it looked nice.
Now that Sony has released...
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
July 2nd, 2015, 11:36 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 3,671
Re: How to cool down
We shot up near Nashville a couple weekends ago. It was so hot and humid at this outdoor wedding. I actually changed into shorts and a t-shirt towards the end around 10:00 PM before the couples exit....
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
June 30th, 2015, 12:27 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,905
Transcode before edit?
I was talking to a guy the other day and he was saying he converts everything to ProRes 422 before he starts editing.
Me personally, I just drop it all on the timeline in PPCC and have at it......
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
June 30th, 2015, 12:26 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 1,982
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
June 30th, 2015, 08:02 AM
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Replies: 14
Views: 1,982
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Forum: Digital Video Industry News
June 29th, 2015, 07:34 AM
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Replies: 57
Views: 27,060
Re: HXR-NX100: 1'' sensor NXCAM
Looking at this guy, even though I'm trying to go smaller on camera size... having something in a similar layout to my NX5... that uses the same batteries which I have a ton of, would be nice. If...
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