Wedding Video with DVX100

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MArk

I have no doubt that you will succeed as you step into the world of filmmaking. I have seen your work over the last 6 months and you show great compostion and POST skills that will transform greatly into the storytelling through film. You last WV is great. I felt like I was watching a muisc video (from the Country Music Channell :D)

I loved the ZZTOP transistion. For some reason my quicktime stopped laoding just a third into that one. :(

Congrats on taking the leap!
 
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hehe. The other day someone mentioned that slow mo makes everything look better.

Good work.
 
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For the slow motion, did you use 30p? I've heard it gives better slow motion results (which makes sense as you have 25% more frames per second to work with). Even on this little Quicktime movie, it looked really smooth.
 
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I really liked your artistic use of sunlight indoors and deliberate backlighting effect. The contrast between the bride and groom was really great. Now that you're leaving the wedding video buisness, do you mind if I pick up on some of your subtleties, as a form of flattery, of course . . . (i.e., mind if I steal a few ideas?).
 
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The first wedding video I did with the DVX was set to 24p. This was a mastake because when slowing down speed you get more of a choppy video.

The one posted was 60i with higher then normal detail. So yes I would definitly record at 30p or 60i for ultimate smoothness. This will leave room for more frames at a reduced speed.

Thanks for the feedback
 
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Yes, but how did you get the film look with 60i? I thought the progressive nature of the 24p/30p has a lot to do with the film look. (When I've deinterlaced my 60i to 24p or 30p in Final Cut, my Sony footage looks rather filmlike, without any gamma changes.) Did you get the look by simply using the cine gamma settings and slow motion?
 
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oh ok, sorry about that.

I actually used no method to produce a film look to the video. Just slowed it down and that is all.
 
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Mark, did you have any luck with 24p for weddings? Or was it a case of not enough light?
 
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I would not recommend filming in 24p because it leaves you with very little options when doing slow motion. And when doing a fast paced event, the manuel focas is too difficult at times. That and low light.

I learned my lesson when doing my first wedding with the DVX in 24p mode. After getting to post, I was disapointed with the lighting and slow motion.

I would do weddings with 60i and autofocus for most shots. And if I could use an external production monitor when filming, I would. Because the LCD is WAY off.
 
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[quote author=Mark_Monciardini link=board=Clips;num=1078600950;start=0#11 date=03/11/04 at 10:14:35]Because the LCD is WAY off.[/quote]

Meaning?
 
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Duh, I was up too late the night before that post. Somehow I was thinking it was off in terms of framing the shot (as some viewfinders clip the sides, and some non TTL still cameras don't provide accurate framing).
 
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That video looked awesome. Great work. Why did you decide to leave the event production?
What NLE was used and how much was the video slowed down(speed wise). I thought it looked great and it didn't have the choppyness of most normally slowed down videos. Good luck in the future
 
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There are a lot of reasons why. It's rush work, it doesn't pay and I just don't find it filling my goals and dreams.

Final Cut Pro 4 was used, it has a nice frame blending option when slowing down speed. Speeds were slowed down 50% down to 25%.

Thanks!
 
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Down to 25%. Wow. I never tried that slow. I've never tried below 50% because I thought it would be crummy and didn't want to wait around for rendering on something that was going to look crummy and wouldn't use. Looks like I made a faulty assumption (I also use Final Cut Pro).
 
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Generally you can get away with it if, lets say, you have a shot where you barley move the camera. But if you want the shot just a little longer, then you can slow down the video. And because you are shooting at 30fps, that leaves a lot of play. Slowing down fast movement down to 25% would probably not look very good. Time to time I have been known to even go as low as 15%. I do this when I am unable to get the bride or person to stand still for very long.
 
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