As you may have noticed it has been some time since my last blog entire, this would be down to me having the time to get many of my ides in motion.
One thing which I’m in the middle of is a Wedding Video! As with many people out there we all have family and sometimes these members of family get married.
For this event I wanted to get every angle so I opted for 3 Mini DV cams for the main seramoni, one fixed at each side of the church pointing towards the front and one at the rear with myself on it getting the best shots for the main section of the filming. If I could pick exactly where I had the cameras I would have put one behind the preast point towards the back of the church but it was not possible. For the next part I used 2 cams and this was for the photos being taken, to be honest there is very little usable footage from the 3 hours but the footage that I can use is very very good. The next event in the day would have been getting to the evening venue, this is where the confetti was through along with the bouquet and some more photos, for this it only need the one cam to get the key footage for any wedding. Now on to another important section of any wedding day and that would be the speeches, for this I used one fixed cam getting the full main table in and another roaming can to get different angles giving the allusion that there were many cameras filing that day, with the roaming cam there is also some good footage of guest enjoying the speeches. And there was also a fixed cam for the dancing at the end of the night.
The main problem in editing all this footage would be getting the audio to sound correct, as there is some footage in there which is not needed so getting the audio to flow is going to be a problem. Running the 3 cams for the church section work well and I’m slowly getting to the end of that section and using Adobe Prem CS3 MultiCam mixer (just like a live vision mixer) works well.
I know this is not what I would plan to spend my time editing but you know it good fun and I’m still enjoying it even thought I’m getting fed up of not saving my work!
One thing which caused problems was the fact that one camera didnt pick up any audio and the other cam picked up audio but it very very poor and jumps all over the place so it’s done to just the one audio source but I still think I can do something with it.