Fast paced SDE
 

The song was chosen by the couple (both clubbers) in the spirit of the season.
Shot with FX1s. Edited on Premiere Pro on a Dell 700m.

I was challenged when I first heard the song. I knew a lot of cuts were involved and hoped to the heavens that there would be enough time. The wedding was at 3pm and the reception started at 630. We were able to play back at around 730p.

www.pinoyvideomaker.com/patricia_jay.wmv

Happy New Year!

that's crazy! i don't think i will ever get into the sde business!

awesome work, jason. it's good to see a filipino represent here.

questions: are you capturing to an external drive or to the laptop? how many cameras? approximately how many tapes worth of footage do you edit together?

i'm super curious because with the amount of footage we generate, if we start capturing at 3, we would barely be done by 6:30!

again, awesome work. you should be proud.

Outstanding!!!
 

I can usually find a gripe or two but not here. That was simply to another level.

Mike

Wow! That's impressive and even more so for an SDE! Thanks for sharing! What's the music?

Great work Jason

This is the best WMP i have seen. I wish it was larger to see more dertails 'couse I really enjoyed it.
I went to your page to more and I saw your Q&A and was cracking up. I notice that you have an AlienWear Laptop. Last year I did the wedding of one of the founder. The make great computers, if I ever switch from Macs I would definetly consider one.

I am just glad that I don't have to compete for client with you in my area. It seams that our philosophy is very similar. I just know how to put film in a picture camera. Hehehe.

The video is damned impressive, especially the turn around time.

And your FAQ is just hilarious!

Under normal circumstances (like no deadline and a slow paced music track) that video was top drawer. Considering that it's an SDE and had to be cut to a challenging track, well, it's off the scale! Superb work all round!!!

Mossy

Wow! You're awesome Jason. You're the type of videographer that raises up our industry.

It really demonstrates for everyone, me included, what's possible in just a few fast-paced hours. What's even more amazing is that the entire video was same day. Most SDEs I've seen are "filled in" with same day video and much of the video is prepared in advance using pre-wedding day photos and pre-wedding day love story type edits.

I would loved to have heard the applause at the end of that presentation!

Awesome.

Amazing! That was absolutely incredible!

You must have been really flying on the computer to crank out that many cuts in that short a time. Well worth the effort because that was just amazing to see.

Did you think about shortening the song? I think that I would have taken out about 45 sec. in the middle prior to that day, and that would have saved some time on the day of. Especially knowing that it was going to require so many cuts per minute. But you pulled it off at the full length and that was really amazing.

I also loved the straight cuts you used. I'm not a big fan of fades and you showed how effective good cuts can be.

Nice.

Ben Lynn

which is better...
 

the SDE video or the faq on your site--I'm not sure (and I really liked the video). Some of the comments you have in your faq I don't have the chutzpah to put up--I laughed so hard I spilled my coffee! Thanks for the video and the laughs, Jason, and don't hesitate to share more of your good work with us here.
Vin

Thanks Guys!
 

The dell has 60 gigs of space so we just dump everything there. We just make sure to flush everything out before an SDE.

Normally, the preparation footage we capture is 45-60 mins long (for two cams).
For the ceremony, we just handpick the "money shots" for inclusion in the video (30 mins approx).

Cheers!

Sylvia...
 

The music is Carol of the Bells (starchild excalibur drumademic remix) by the london festival orchestra

Douglas
 

That's awesome. I would have agreed to an exchange deal if I did his.

Thanks for watching.

Ben
 

It didn't enter my mind. Probably because it was short enough to beigin with (3:05). The funny thing was, that 180 seconds turned out to be an eternity when I was tearing through the timeline.

(and though I haven't posted yet in your thread, let me say here that I like the way you cut up the interviews in your reality wedding clip. Now THAT was a lot of work).

Cheers!

Incredible video. Just . . . incredible. I had to edit a video "day of" last year for a couple. I only had about 3 hours to do it, and a good hour and a half was spent capturing the footage to my CPU. I didn't have a fast paced song like you, and it was damn difficult to edit under the gun like that. I can't imagine doing what you did.

The footage looked really nice as well. Great colors and detail. You must like your FX1's. How many do you use during the ceremony, and do you shoot continuosly during the ceremony or not?

Travis
 

We use 2 FX1s for the shoot. We record everything in the ceremonies (mostly catholic).

After a couple of months warming up to the Sonys, now I'm loving every minute shooting with them. We've customized a picture profile to our taste and are very much amazed with the quality of the image.

They're making me forget my love affair with the DVX.

Do you do much in the way of color correction or enhancement in post?

for that video, except for some bw clips and the soft filter for the xmas tree sequence, nothing was corrected.

Wow. That's impressive quality from the camera. You must have a great settings profile figured out. I'm on GL2's, and I end up doing a lot of color correction in post to get just what I want.

What about steadicam devices? Are you strictly handheld, or do you use monopods or steadicams of any kind?

Pardon all of the questions, but I pride myself on attempting quality work, and when I find someone who is exhibiting the qualities I like, I tend to want to figure out what I can learn from them. d:-)

No problem at all.

I graduated from GL2s, God knows I loved 'em, but I outgrew the limited manual controls.

As of now, prep shots are handheld as well as parts of the ceremony after the vows and readings.

I've only just recently ordered a glidecam and waiting excitedly to practice on it.

Very nice handheld work then. It's so hard to do with a small camera.

I do like the GL2's, but I sure wish they had a manual zoom ring. Other than that, they'll do alright for me for a while longer I hope.

Keep up the good work. I've been watching a bunch of your videos. I like your style. I'll probably bug you again down the road with another question.

Until then . . . .

very VERY impressive work.
For an SDE, i would say its probably one of the best ones ive seen

very VERY impressive and im sure that the SDE alone would have scored kudos with other potential clients.

good luck with it mate

Peter - over 2,000 posts! (and 500 of them were a 1000 words or more!) u da man! ha ha

roflmao

how did u know theyre were 1000 words or more?? LOL are u stalking me?? ahahahah

Jason...that was an SDE? Oh my lord! Incredible man, simply incredible.

Even if I dind't know it was an SDE I would consider it some of the best work I've seen from you- then again I said that with the last clip you did. You keep improving. I can't believe you can produce such quality in so little time.

Keep up the fantastic work- you are immeasurably talented.

Stupid question... what is an SDE?

Not a stupid question at all . . .

SDE = same day edit

Jason, that was some amazing work right there.

When are you going to come to our continent and teach us the way of the Jedi?

Maybe we can all finally meet. Going to Vegas for WEVA this year? Either of you?

Off topic - I know, but how useful would you rate joining and going to WEVA in Vegas? I have considered it before, but I just haven't heard from someone who is a member and has gone as to how useful it is. Again sorry to steer off topic a little.

Walter, Glen
 

Let it be known that I'd want nothing more than this to happen.

Now if I could just get around to getting that all-powerful American Visa.
(and sign up for WEVA).