First Outdoor Wedding with HMC150s

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Mark Von Lanken

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We did this Same Day Edit at last weekends wedding. It was the first wedding that we got to shoot outdoors for the ceremony with our HMC150s. I absolutely love the Panny colors outdoors. I thought the colors looked great indoors, but outdoors, the colors really shine through. I used a stock scene file and left all images untouched in the NLE. I think we lost a little "color pop" in encoding it for the web.

We actually had 6 cameras for the ceremony, but only three of them were used in the SDE. I shot Glidecam, Trisha was on the back camera, Deanna Summers from Wichita shot front camera, Aggie Brooks from DFW shot with an HVX200 on a jib, and then I had two locked down HDV cameras.

Sarah + Vahid = LOVE
 
Wow, the father of the bride really knows how to throw coin around. Well done on the wedding, looked like a dream location!
 
Blade Borge said:
Wow, the father of the bride really knows how to throw coin around. Well done on the wedding, looked like a dream location!
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Hi Blade,

Yes, they had a very nice wedding. I didn't even know the facility existed until last year, so we were really excited to book the gig. Actually we shot there the last two weekends, which was an absolute joy.
 
Voytech said:
Very nice! Which glidecam are you using?
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Hi Voytech,

Thanks. I have the GC2000. The HMC150 is so light that it easily works with the GC2000, that is unless you add a bunch of accesories. I can add my Century Optics fisheye without a problem, but if I added a light, along with a wide or fisheye lens, it may become too heavy to balance.

You can find used GC2000 pretty cheap.
 
Mike Harvey said:
6 cameras? Holy crap, that's a lot of footage to edit.
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Hi Mike,

Yes and no. Two cameras were locked down, so they are just a cover shot. One camera was a jib, and I was roaming with the Glidecam, so it's kind of like a two camera edit with two creative choices and two cover shots...at least that is what I am telling myself. :smile:
 
Great work Mark!, what crane are you using? I also would like to comment on the beautiful wideangle/fisheye lens work, i think you really make it shine... one last thing, do you do free run time code on your cams and sync them up, or just by hand in post?

Sorry for the many questions!
 
I agree with Superfresa, the fisheye shots ,which I am usually not a fan of, looks amazing. I didn't even read to see it was a SDE, that is even more impressive. I would love to see the full highlight video.
 
Very nice Mark... I shook my head when people mentioned they don't like fisheyes for weddings, you guys make it look so required.

I noted about 3 lights on the reception? what lights are you using? they look like battery led's.
 
Mark Von Lanken said:
I think we lost a little "color pop" in encoding it for the web.

Sarah + Vahid = LOVE
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About the "color pop" if you mean it looks washed out, i took the solution text from a link that is in the thread before my post, so you don't have to look through it.


Here it is:
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After rendering into a QuickTime/h.264 file, open it up in QuickTime and select “Show Movie Properties.” Highlight the video track then click on the “Visual Settings” tab. Towards the bottom left you should see “Transparency” with a drop-down box next to it. Select “Blend” from the menu then move the “Transparency Level” slider to 100%. Choose “Straight Alpha” from the same drop-down and close the properties window and finally “Save.”
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That is some nice glidecam work for sure. Are you just using the 2000? Any arm support or the vest too? I heard people complaining and saying that you need the GC4000. IF the 2000 works then I might have to pick it up.

Aside from the cheap price, do you like the glidecam? Easy to set-up and do you have any shortcomings that you have to work around? I think this might be one of my next purchases.


Cheers and nice to see some quality work done in this area.
 
Superfresa66 said:
Great work Mark!, what crane are you using? I also would like to comment on the beautiful wideangle/fisheye lens work, i think you really make it shine... one last thing, do you do free run time code on your cams and sync them up, or just by hand in post?

Sorry for the many questions!
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We used a crane on camera 4, but we did not have time to work that footage into the SDE since it was shown that night at the reception. I don't know what brand of crane it was. It belonged to the groom, who owns a production company.

Thanks for your comments. The biggest danger in using wide angle/fisheye lenses is not over using them.

On the free run time code question, I have not used that feature. I use Edius, and I believe I can use time code sync when using multi cam, but I never use multi cam. We condense our ceremonies and I have not found multi cam to be beneficial. Now if we did an ABCDEF roll of the ceremony, uncut, then multi cam would be a great solution.

I manually sync the footage in post. Syncing with audio can be tricky because of the delay in audio from the front camera to the rear camera, so I use a camera flash. Light travels much faster than sound, so there is not a delay with a camera flash.
 
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