Working on my first video (wedding)

nvisiblephoto · June 29, 2011

Well, this has been a fun challenge. Been shooting weddings for a few years now. Got a 7D last year and got an offer to shoot a video at a wedding.

The most challenging and nerve racking part was dealing with audio. I was very nervous about it going in and made plenty of mistakes but you live an learn.

My first wedding video

This is a short clip of the video I've done so far. I plan to add photographs into this as well. I'm just curious to get some input from others while I work on it.

DavidTO · June 30, 2011

Agreed on the audio, you'll have to invest in some mics and a recorder if you're going to shoot stuff like that.

What are you cutting with? I saw a really awesome feature in FCPX for just this. You record reference audio with the built-in mic on the camera and also record higher quality on a separate recorder, and then in FCPX you just click the two and tell it to synchronize. It looks at the waveforms of the audio and lines up the audio. Then you turn off the reference audio and you're left with the clean audio synchronized for you. You can do this manually, and people have been doing that for years, but it's nifty that the app will do it for you.

nvisiblephoto · June 30, 2011

I actually did record on an external mic. I used a Zoom H4n on a tripod in front of them. The problem is that the Zoom captures all the ambient sound and the interview I recorded was outside with an expressway right behind them. Next time I would use a shotgun mic and/or lav mic to target the vocals more.
I tried to eliminate the background noise using the noise reduction in Adobe Audition and it worked pretty well at eliminating that, but also made the vocals sounds pretty bad.

I synced the audio manually in Premiere. (Don't have FCP, I'm a PC guy).
It wasn't too hard to do it manually. There's a plugin for Premiere that can automate it I believe but I only have a few clips that need to be synced.

lifeinfocus · August 12, 2011

I have been using a Zoom H4N to record weekly mass and using freeware Audacity to edit it. We have connected it directly to the church sound system. So, when you do a wedding next time you can record the event perhaps.

See http://www.assumptionevents.org/ for recordings of last weeks scripture readings and homily. I sometimes upload recordings of the cantor singing at the mass.

This is a Google Sites by the way - total cost per year for the site is the renewal of the domain name - about $10, and of course time to learn how to create a Google Site.

Working on my first video (wedding)

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