How To Package a Wedding Video???

Rick Meyer

Rick Meyer

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Hey gang-

First off, before I even ASK my question, I want to thank you all for being an invaluable resource. Many of you have helped me out tremendously.

I am currently working on my sister's wedding video and have a LOT of footage. I had 1 camera, and footage of the wedding, reception, rehearsal dinner as well as the week prior to the wedding; we hung out by the pool, had wine tours, I filmed the girls and guys getting ready, etc.

I assume that I will have to package a 2 disc video. However, I'd LOVE to know what the general consensus is as to how long a TYPICAL wedding video is??? I know that this wedding video will be longer because it is my sister and I want it to be better than average. I have a chapter complete and it is about 7 minutes long. However, I want this video to be as long as it takes, but I fear if its TOO long that I will lose a lot of quality when I compress it through DVD Encoder (haven't used it yet so I don't quite know how that is going to work).

So, if anyone can give me any input as to how they package their DVDs, more specifically, their wedding videos, I will be VERY appreicitive!!!!

Thanks in advance!!
Rick
 
I'd recommend doing two versions, the Extended-Peter Jackson-Director's cut version that has everything that only two people really care to ever watch. Namely your sister and her husband. Then cut an abbreviated version that friends and family can watch. Keep that version under 15minutes.
That's what I usually do. If it takes two disc then do it. If you can fit them both on one disc just make a menu that allows them to pick which version they want to watch.
 
Sirius_Doggy said:
I'd recommend doing two versions, the Extended-Peter Jackson-Director's cut version that has everything that only two people really care to ever watch. Namely your sister and her husband. Then cut an abbreviated version that friends and family can watch.
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Thats a good idea. She has mentioned that her entire California crew have been clammoring to watch this. So, I had better make it non-couple friendly.

Rick
 
I recently did a wedding and did three versions and (believe it or not) they all fit on one dvd. The first was a slick edited version with no extra footage. The second was a complete ceremony version (for the bride and groom), and the third was all the footage I shot (so they could see what landed on the cutting room floor), They were listed as chapters on the dvd.
-dvxwheelr
 
They all fit on ONE DVD? Do tell...how long was this DVD? I am afraid of losing quality if I crunch it all onto one DVD.

Rick
 
I'm not sure how long the video chapters were but the total space used on the dvd was 3.65 gigs. I exported the chapters from PPro as avi films to my hard drive and then used HP DVD to create the dvd. The quality seemed fine, but I'm new to all this. I must of been crunching the video. What settings do you use not to do this?
-dvxwheelr
 
I always include a music video of the entire event. This is a nice way to have short beautiful recap of the wedding day to show people.
 
Of the weddings I've done, there were always at least TWO music videos, and more likley three, often coinciding with the opening, the ending, and the big dance. I edited them in the style of 1940s movie musicals. The brides love them.
 
try cutting the grooms house to a song, the brides house to a song keep the service , speeches, cutting the cake etc as is and cut the dancing and partying at the reception to a few songs. If you've got footage of the actuall wedding planning it might would be cool to cut chunks of that in with the parts of the wedding day that they corrospond to.

And that ten-15 minute highlights package is a blessing to all those people who don't want to sit through the full lenght version. People will be singing your praises for that short version
 
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