Posted by dhartproductions on 08/19/06 15:14

peter 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.
> 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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