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Posted by David McCall on 10/18/06 16:34
"Tony" <trusso11783@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:45:36 -0400, Bill <trash@christian-horizons.org>
> wrote:
>
> It is true that most couples do tell me that when they watch their tape,
> they missed all of it while
> it was going on. Aside from that, they also will not watch a super long
> tape. They will always go
> right to this part or that part. I really havent done weddings since DVDs
> became popular and that is
> the difference. Now, you make chapters. Ten years ago, they had to FF to
> all the parts. Not even
> their closest friends and family are going to sit through an entire mass
> more than once, if that
> much. As an editor, it is up to us to make the video move without keeping
> in everything. Leaving on
> all of the dancing, just for the sake of having everything, is amateurish.
> I used to take one full
> song, and then use cuts from other songs (very carefully so that I got
> everyone in, and did
> everything in my power to keep them dancing on beat) and I would be able
> to combine the footage of 4
> songs into one. And it looked like a well produced 4 camera shoot.
>
> The option to give them the complete unedited tape worked too. Most didnt
> want it. Most loved the 90
> minutes I would give them. Very watchable with no waste. Of course, what I
> think is not important,
> the couple might (such as their 90 year old great grandmother who might
> have died right after the
> wedding).
>
> I just got married and I am editing my own wedding video. I paid someone
> to shoot and hand me the
> tapes. I will make it nice and short and then include a bonus DVD of all
> of the watchable footage.
>
> Tony
>
I think it is a good idea to give them all of the raw that is watchable
with carefully placed chapters and plenty of them. That way they
have access to all of it as it happened. If you do that, it may not be
necessary to even do 90 minutes of "good editing". 90 minutes is a
lot of time to fill as an editor, and it may be too much time to put
people through when the couple is sharing the DVD.
DVDs are a blessing and a curse. They allow us to put out far better
looking material than we ever could than VHS did, but they may kill
your chances of selling more copies considering that nearly every
computer sold in the last few years can duplicate a DVD.
But then what do I know. I'm not in that business.
David
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