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Posted by Martin van derPoel on 08/17/06 10:48
Hi Peter,
I have done a few wedding videos, and like you I also started with about 90
minutes of video.
If you ask the target audience, i.e. the bride and groom and immediate
family you will find that most likely they want the complete speeches at to
them they mean something.
The party afterwards is a little different. Keep the original sound with
the video and select pieces that mean something, alternate that with
cut-aways of the crowd that is sitting down. For continuity you can have
the same sound track (dance music) for one bit of dancing and one cut-away,
and then fade to a new bit of dancing followed by another bit of the crowd.
Be careful not to have the same people dancing and in the following scene
sitting down as you might not notice it but the target audience most likely
will.
Have a go, as it is not hard to beat the "proffessionals" as they usually
lack the time to do the editing properly.
Regards,
Martin
"peter" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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>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. 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?
>
> 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.
>
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