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Why Should I Hire a Professional Wedding Videographer?
Videography is expensive. You’re not wrong and there’s nothing wrong with being on a budget and thinking you’ll pass on a videographer for your wedding day. I often hear, “I’ve been on the fence about video but I feel like I’ll regret it if I don’t” and you probably will.
Video is one of those things that you don’t always see its value until long after when the memory has faded. Video is something you watch and gives a deeper perspective on the day. Pictures don’t have the audio of your personal vows and don’t truly show the motion of just how twirly that dress was.
“Who’s going to watch that?”
Videography is expensive. You’re not wrong and there’s nothing wrong with being on a budget and thinking you’ll pass on a videographer for your wedding day. I often hear, “I’ve been on the fence about video but I feel like I’ll regret it if I don’t” and you probably will.
Video is one of those things that you don’t always see its value until long after when the memory has faded. Video is something you watch and gives a deeper perspective on the day. Pictures don’t have the audio of your personal vows and don’t truly show the motion of just how twirly that dress was.
Audio
A professional wedding videographer captures clean audio. The videographer will hide a lav mic on the groom and have special white microphones for the bride that can clip to a garter around the her leg. The videographer will also mic the officiant or set up a recorder off of the pa system. They’ll hide backups at the podium when aunt Susy forgets to do her reading into the mic. They’ll capture clear audio of the audience roaring to see bride and groom enter the reception and they’ll grab a feed directly off the DJs speakers or board to capture every moment of the events audio in clear, crisp, and vivid detail.
Throwing up a camera and using camera audio may get a gist of what they are saying but likely you’ll get muffled audio you cant make out.
The certain things photos cannot not save and that’s audio. If you want to look back on your speeches and remember what was said a professional wedding videographer is going to record that for you.
Its all about the angles.
A professional wedding videographer will have multiple cameras some times 3-4 of them. weddings are wild. Here is a scenario...
You can’t always control uncle bill. The unplugged ceremony is just a suggestion to the man. He’s going to whip out that front facing camera and go full on tunnel vision trying to maneuver his phone, physically flipping it around because it’s a video of his face and the damn thing is just too complicated. (He misses when phones were simple) While he is doing that he backs up and centers his head in the only video camera forming a perfect composition of the bald spot he is been doing his best to hide.
Most wedding videographers will have at least 2 camera ops. So in the event uncle bill backs up into the lead videographer and takes him out, there is still another manned camera triumphantly capturing the first kiss.
“Ill probably never watch it “
A professional wedding video needs a professional wedding video editor. So if you will watch it, comes down to what’s going to be important to you 5-10-15 years later? It might be different for different people. Some might value a brief highlight video. Some might want to sit back and listen to their fathers toast or relive those written vows. Be aware that video edits can vary greatly so think what it is that would be best for you.
Timeline Visuals does professional wedding and event videography
Located Northern/Central New Jersey.
Using a Gamepad to Cull Photos in lightroom
If you are like me and absolutely loath the culling process. this might be something that appeals to you. I use a combination of this and a program called Aftershoot which uses AI to cull your photos for you. This is often my first step and then I go through and check for only my absolute favorites and neccisary photos.
If you are like me and absolutely loath the culling process. this might be something that appeals to you. I use a combination of this and a program called Aftershoot which uses AI to cull your photos for you. This is often my first step and then I go through and check for only my absolute favorites and neccisary photos. You can get 10% off aftershoot with this code.
With this guide youll be able to kick your feet up and relax by grabbing your favorite console controller and programing it to use keyboard shortcuts. This is a universal keybinding process and can be use it any program such as premier pro for multicam editing, davicni resolve, Photomechanic, capture one Aftershoot or honestly any program with a large amount of shortcuts, Forr this we will be explaining the shortcuts for lightroom.
If you are on a windows PC you are going to want to purchase Controller Companion it is $2.99 and well worth it.. You can purchase it using the steam store, this should be familiar to any PC gamers reading this. You can also purchase it directly from them here.
The idea is programing you gamepad to utalize shortcuts so you dont have to touch your mose or keyboard a full list of lightroom shortcuts can be found here.
So first thing you need to do after installing is open it. For whatever reason it opens directly to to the taskbar icons. you need to click the icon and open settings
Next navigate to profiles. I would reccomend creating a program binding if you plan on using more then one program.
Below is my lightroom Profile
the best part is you can use any controler you want. Some may even opt for a wireless keyboard like the Corsair K83
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The filming of Nani Wells music video "Dark"
The production for Nani’s music video “Dark” was a blast to make. We shot it over the course of two days, with a relatively loose concept.
The production for Nani’s music video “Dark” was a blast to make. We shot it over the course of two days, with a relatively loose concept. We filmed it all on the Sony fs5, while recording Raw Cinema DNG to our Atomos Shogun Inferno. For most of the video we used our Movi m15, with an Easyrig Mini Max to save our arms. We also used the Proaim Camera Jib to get the some overhead shots in the bathtub.
While we originally planned for 3 locations, the Vernon Boardwalk footage didn’t end up making it into the final edit. But with how cold it was that day, Nani was obviously freezing and who could blame her. It was 7am on a brisk, mid January morning.
Joey shooting a scene with Nani on our Movi M15.
For the edit, I colored all of the raw clips in Davinci Resolve and then exported them separately. Then I had Joey cut it together in Premiere Pro, using proxies so that we could exchange project files, and after I would do the final export on my computer. Cinema DNG can be huge in file size, so we recommend WD Black Drives for their mix of large storage capacity and performance. A raid DAS or enclosure might be necessary to mount them externally. We recommend using QNAP TR-004, Synology 4 bay NAS DiskStation DS920+, or for enclosures without raid a Mediasonic HF7-SU31C.
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Things we think we did great
We worked well on the fly without a defined plan
We were able to keep the production relatively minimal
Shooting raw on the Fs5 was really great, despite the extra storage requirements
Things we think we could improve
We needed more B-roll, we started running out of shots during the edit
Our schedules and budget were limited, but both would have benefited from a thorough plan
We probably could have traded some of the gimble shots for tripod shots, to minimize strain on our two-man crew
We would have benefited from having more crew members. Some lighting sacrifices were made, due to limited mental bandwidth
More BTS from the video
