24p weddings, any advise?

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I've shot weddings before in 60i. I have two coming up in 24p. Any advise? War stories? Settings? Low light situations? Anything I should watch out for using the DVX100? Any thoughts from people doing weddings in 24p I would find very helpfull. Thanks! 8)
 
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Thanks Jubal28. My main concern is low light situations like the first dance. 8)
 
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I'll have to check on the rest later (as I said), but I do know my shutter speed was 1/24.
 
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Here are couple of grabs. I haven't done anything to them except crop. These are the worst of the low-light.

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Settings:

F6 with:

Chroma Level -3
Chroma Phase -7
Color Temp 0
Master Ped -5
A Iris Level -3
Cine-Like Gamma
Skin Tone Dtl Off
Cine-Like Matrix
Detail Thick
 
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Why did you put the PED so low? did you have a on camera light?Thanks Jubal!
 
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Jubal, May I ask what you charge? No prob if you prefer not to answer. I'm all the way in CA, so it shouldn't be a competition prob. :-)

Thanks,
Chico
 
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I've only done two weddings, and both were special circumstances. I don't plan to do any more, so I don't really have a set fee or scale.
 
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They were only marginally useful. In all honesty, one of the reasons I did it in 24p was to learn what and what not to do in low light. It was my first experience with light that low, so I made mistakes -- and learned in the process.

However, I have high hopes for post (just a little quick adjusting; not my "final" look):

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(Here, you can see the master ped could have stood be even lower than it was (post on left).)
 
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Thanks Jubal! It really helps to see how the DVX works in low light. If you were to do it again what changes would you do?
 
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I'd use a monitor connected to the stationary cam.  Things looked fine in the LCD and EVF, but ended up much darker than I thought they would (see above).  I had tried very hard to calbrate the LCD to give me a "true" picture, too.

I'm going to try to recreate the level of lighting and see what adjustments I can make to improve the picture.  I can tell you this much, though; after doing this, I'm sold on day for night.

Still, better underexposed than overexposed.  I had planned all along to give that part of it an "old film" look, so the noise which will appear when I brighten it will actually kinda work for me.

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