Wedding and reception frame rates?

firehawk

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Ive been shooting both at 720 /60p, but I'm
Thinking about shooting the wedding ceremony at 1080 /30p and the reception at 720 /60p.

Reasons: I can lower the shutter speed at 30p and gain a little light. I often only use on camera lighting at the reception and have to make due with available light at the ceremony. At 1080 I will have reframing options and be able to get more "zoom" since I edit on a 720 timeline.

Output is usually DVD and sometimes Blu ray.
I'm using hmc150s and an hck10 (hmc40) and about to add a gopro hero 3 to the mix.
I'm not a big fan of 24p due to jerkiness during pans, requiring super slow pans. Some people walk fast and my camera people still move too quickly.

Any thoughts or recommendations?
 
Same sort of things I do in poor light situations. Not perfect, but you can work with it.
 
If you (or more importantly, the client) can live with the "live" look of the reception compared to the ceremony, then sure.
 
I filmed this wedding using 24fps...used a panasonic ag-ac90 and 2 canon DSLRs and a gopro2 (gopro2 in the time laspe shots...shot using high-res images vs video):
 
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