Wedding Highlights reel

Ok, well just as long as you don't use template designing with a program that just asks you to type in text and throw in a picture, then does all the work for you...you can always tell when something is template designed and is usually a dissapointment to any smart couple.

Also, make sure you are printin diect to printable discs. We use a MB PrintFactory 2 which gives awesome direct to DVD printing on Taiyo-Yuden Printable Silver Matte (also dont use anything other than RITEK or Taiyo-Yuden media or else you will have people complaining about glitchy DVDs.

And if you cant afford those just remember this...stay FAR FAR FAR away from ProDisc and Linkyo...probably the worst DVDs on the market by far.

Anyway, I have bad news for you though, shooting in 30p will still give you bad slowmotion. We always shoot in 60 with the HVX, which you can also do with the DVX, so why not do it? Smooth slow-mo is crucial to bringing out the emotion...When you slow 30p down to 50% (15fps) you can still really see the delay pretty bad, so shoot in 60 and never worry about it again

::: Connor
 
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Yes, I print directly to disc on Ritek discs as well. That's amazing what you say about shooting in 30p. When I was trying to figure out what was going on with jerkiness in slo-mo on 24p, everyone said to always shoot in 30p if planning to slow down. I will try 60 though. I'm assuming you mean 60i, eh?

Oh and thanks for the eye-opener on the boredom thing. I'm realising that I was still in "relative mode." As I've explained before, my first wedding was for my niece. I was all into it, and I'm realising that part of that came from being her uncle. (It's funny that I kept telling her I planned to give her a video that would NOT look like, "Oh, my uncle did my wedding video.") Anyway, this last couple were in my niece's wedding party so I still felt somewhat like I was filming something within the family, and of course along with that came an automatic comparison of the two.

I guess it's a matter of, like you said, remembering that I'm a professional who's there to do a job. There must be some emotion in it to give good effect (I think), but I'm not there to be entertained. Yes.
 
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Sounds like you are on the right track ;)

Also, you might want to try the Taiyo-Yuden Silver Printable, since Ritek only has a White Printable. The Silver printables, after printed, have a florentine look and it looks like the original disc was printed with 2 layers, a really cool effect when printing on printable silver rather that printable white. Also make sure to never burn a master above 4x if you have an 8x or 16x DVD-R...if you have a 4x DVD-R dont burn above 2x :)

Oh, by the way, best place to get media...I promise you will never find it cheaper. Been using them for 5 years.

http://www.supermediastore.com/

here is what i always get...
http://www.supermediastore.com/taiyo-yuden-silver-inkjet-printable-8x-dvd-r-media.html

here is what you get, probably cheaper than what you've been paying ;)
http://www.supermediastore.com/ritek-ridata-8x-dvd-r-white-inkjet-printable.html

a 200 pack is $64 FREE shipping. ;)

::: Connor
 
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Yes, I've been meaning to look for Silver Inkjet printables. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction--location-wise and price-wise. I will definitely check them out. Just a question though ... why not print above a certain burn speed for the master?

OK folks, the Love Story is finally up and running at a decent download speed! It appears that these videos prefer mpg as their most comfortable format for decent file size. (I also cut the Love Story excerpts from 10 mins down to 6 mins.) However, they're no longer streaming so perhaps I should make them open your WMP instead of going to the separate web page. Thoughts on that? Anyway, be sure to refresh your memory on my self-critique before adding your own. link:http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showpost.php?p=520971&postcount=34

Thanks to all..
 
For burn speed...when you burn at higher than 4x you will get input and output errors, and while your master may look fine on a few DVD players, the copies you make from that master will glitch, stall, and pixellate on other brand DVD players.

Anyway, always burn at 1/4th the rated speed on the DVD to avoid I/O errors.

::: Connor
 
Wow, and that only applies to the master right? Once you begin making copies, it would be ok to burn them at the disc's max speed?
 
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