Funny fast-paced wedding's video intro (and how much I like QT7 :)

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arkham

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This is a little video that is going to make the intro for a wedding I've shot last week. The reason for me to include this video is that this was kind of the last party for Sabrina and Steph, 10 days before their wedding. Those were fun times for all of us, (including yours truly, the steadycam operator/director), as you can see by yourself by right-click-and-saving here.

Beware: you must have Quicktime 7 for this clip. But you will see why I am very enthusiastic about the H.264 codec (13MB total, for almost 3 minutes of high quality video (I mean, the picture quality, not the content..., which is questionable at best ;) ), extremely faced paced video, as far as I am not blind :D ). so I think now is a good time for you to get QT7 (now available for PCs too). This video was my ultimate test for this new codec (H.264), and I have to admit I am completly overwhelmed about it. I can't think of any other codec out there, able of producing such quality at such a low cost in terms of bandwith. Can you? This is especially true with fast-paced video clips like this one...

FYI, hardware was : DVX100 (of course) and steadycam "Aigle Complet" (the model for heavy cameras, up to 20lb...).

Comments welcome, as usual. ;)
 
That was fun! The music and visuals worked very well together. Kind of like old home movies shot on 8mm. The steadycam stuff I didn't n notice because of the speed ramps which made everything look jumpy. But I really enjoyed this a lot. I'm sure your friends will love it.

Thanks for sharing.

Edit: How come there was NO lifeguard on duty and I definitly saw people running near the pool and swimming soon after eating. Shame on all of you. :)
 
That is one dirtay swimming pool! That pool was green like my x girlfriends teeth! Nasty! Hey, that was a fun video and yes it did have that 8mm look to it.
 
Lol! Yes the pool was green because I think my friends forgot to put any chemicals in it. They don't really care, for we only have like a couple of sunny days per year anyway. This is the reason you don't see many outdoor pools in Belgium. OTOH, the rain is filling the pool naturally ;) Now I think I have managed to disgust many of you :lol: But to be honnest, as far as I am aware of, no one had been sick. Well, not that kind of sickness anyway, for I have to admit we all drank a little too much.

Anyway the green mess was the main driver for me to shoot all the afternoon: wearing my steadycam vest was a good excuse for me, otherwise I would have been throwned into this green "thing" like everyone else :)

Maybe I should make it B/W or sepia-old-8mm-movie look for the final version, don't you think so? ;)

Thanks anyway for your kind comments.

BTW did you know I haven't edited the video on that music (Strauss) at all. You would be surprised to hear the original cut, for this is a completly different kind of music (a _techno_ remix of Blondie's Atomic...) and atmosphere. I just wanted to check if something else would work afterall, and was happy with the joy/craziness expressed by Strauss' music. Another awesome candidate was the Door's "Break on Through". That one works perfectly too! Actually, I think I'll put all these musics as extra audio tracks on the DVD, so we can switch from one to another while watching the video. Instead of multilanguage, I think I'll make a multi-score DVD ;) It might be a world premiere for a wedding's video... Just follow your mood, and pick one of the tracks :lol: Now the challenge is to make it work for the rest of the video (about 50 min). I'll do it!
 
Oh, I forgot about the no lifeguard comment :) LOL! I think the lifeguard was drunk-sleeping under a car or something. It's a shame Belgium's people are the second heaviest beer drinkers of the world (top position: Germany). :)

The good thing is we were well protected, for some of the people you see the most in this video are FBI agents. Well, of course, we don't have a real FBI in Belgium, but we do have "things" that are supposed to do the same kind of job...
 
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