Wedding videographer's who use DVX 100B

[drdimento]

I'm still waiting to see/buy one of these shoulder rigs....

Oh geez, I just used the thing yesterday on a corporate video and on Sunday on one of the tv shows AND not more than about 3 or 4 weeks ago found the company that makes them . . well maybe it was 6 or more weeks ago . . time does fly when you're having fun huh?

Send me a PM and it will serve as a reminder and I'll track it down and I even had them send me a direct delivery price instead of the "dealer price" i purchased mine under but the corporate direct was within 5 bux of what I paid :shocked:

 

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What would be good settings for a wedding? I just got a DVX last week to start doing weddings. Any suggestions?

Most weddings I have shot are done in 60i, it helps sell the reality feel as if you are there. If you want a choppier feeling try 30p, but generally speaking 60i is what people expect and if you want to give that choppier feel to a couple shots you can go back and de-interlace with a small resolution loss. Plus you can get smoother slow motion with 60i. Usually I would ignore most of the scene files and do major color correction in post on a quality monitor unless you're really pressed for time. Consistency is more important than the overall "look" the scene files create IMO. The more your shots match the less clips you have to individually color correct.

If you're doing a live switch, make sure to white balance & sync all your cameras and you should be good to go. Be careful with using camera flashes for sync points, I've seen cameras miss the flash. Especially if you're using different model cameras, scene files will certainly be helpful for tweaking cameras to all match.

Shoot 24P!! It kills me when wedding videogs shoot 60i on their DVX. What's the point of having a DVX if you're not shooting 24p?? Get an XL-2 if you want 60i, those have longer lenses and are more suited for events anyways.

Because it produces good looking 60i SD and it's more sensative than the XL2 which is really important for event videography.
I don't see why someone would shoot almost any weddings in 24p, you lose a lot of light (which can often mean the difference between whether you need to gain up), many people may not even have a proper tv for viewing progressive scan material so it will flicker like crazy (on an interlaced set) if you want the extra resolution, and I don't know too many weddings that are transferred to film so I don't see much point in it unless the client specifically requests it for some reason.