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Posted by Bob Ford on 08/17/06 01:54
On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 23:42:33 GMT, "peter" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
>I have 1.5 hour of video from a wedding reception that I'm trying to cut
>shorter. The longest sections are the speeches by various people and the
>dances (different combination of bride/groom/family members). Any
>suggestions?
>
>For examples, the speeches. I can extract a few sentences from each person.
I would pick pertinent comments and use short clips with the audio.
You may encounter some jump cuts in doing this. Try adding a very
short blip of white between the cuts as is often done on TV.
>Or I can remove the audio from these speeches and add music background. This
>way I don't have to decide what the best part of each person's speech is and
>I can also use a shorter clip of each speech. But does anyone actually want
>to hear the speeches?
86 the idea of replacing the S.O.T. with background muzak.
>
>For the dances. I don't know whether to include a small clip of dance from
>each combination with their respective background music, or use a small
>video clip from each dance but use one song as a continuous music
>background. This would give more feel of continuity to the video, but some
>people would appear to dance off beat since they weren't actually dancing to
>the music I dub in.
I would use short snips and do the white blip between.
Using the same music thereby making people dancing off beat would be
very distracting to me but what do I know, I produce dance competition
videos ;-^)
>
Bob Ford
Images In Motion
www.imagesinmotion.com
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