Real nice wedding video

[DiscCoasterPro]

Hi. As I become more interested in video editing, and I play more with VS9, I can appreciate more the effort that goes into creating a nice video.

Last night my daughter and son-in-law came over our house to share their recently acquired wedding video from the videographer. (just married )

My son-in-law mentioned to me that, although it was nicely done, he didn't see much difference from the videos I had put together, from this wedding video.

Well ... I did! LOL. This guy must have a hundred transitions in this video. Subtle, for sure, but tons of them. For example, he was shooting everyone dancing to a particular dance, and in just that segment, changed from one angle, to another, from one couple dancing in one part of the dance floor to another, while never losing the bands music. The music played contiguously, while he inserted clip after clip and melded it together to one dance scene without really making it noticable. He did things like this throughout the video.

He also melded in slideshow clips which he compiled from my kids giving him over 150 4x6 prints that he had to scan first.

Shoot, forget the amount of work, I don't think I'm ogranized enough to store all these various edits on the computer and remember what the heck I was trying to accomplish! Not to mention, he must be doing more than one wedding!

All I could think of after watching this hour and a half of very nicely done video was ... wow ... could VS9 handle THAT MANY transitions, effects and file clips without crashing? LOL ... I'm pretty sure he was using something else, but I couldn't help wondering if VS could keep up with that.

secret .... even though it was my daughters wedding video, I enjoyed watching this guys techniques as much as the wedding!

dcp

[skier-hughes]

Once you become accomplished at using the app you'll find out how easy it is to do.
Now, to do well is a totally different story, he was probably changing scenes at music beats etc. Still easy to do, but so much time is taken to get the cut in eactly the right place
Being organised does help a lot, but as you do larger and larger projects you find how best to work.

[rwindeyer]

Two things here:

One, a compliment - you are obviously turning out pretty good video yourself

Two, this kind of thing is quite possible (and even easy) in VS. From our last holiday I had over 400 clips in the library Also, I do enjoy syncing scenes to music, with transitions that correspond to the music. Just invloves laying the music in the sound track and then getting the clips and transitions right. Takes lots of work, but very satisfying once it's done.

[sjj1805]

Reference the sound track, The easy way to accomplish this is to use the sound from one track only, providing the pictures fit in no one is aware that the sound doesnt "belong" to the pictures you are watching.
Obviously this approach varies according to the video you are producing.

I have even "stolen" sound clips from a completely different part of a video to replace some distorted sound. One example was when I visited Alcatraz, it was very windy and in some places the wind blowing across the microphone caused an awfull noise, so I just took some of the similar sound from earlier/later of the same location (with all those chirping bird noises) and replaced the faulty part with it. (Listen out though for any obvious background noises which give the game away).

Where the original sound doesn't match you can get round this by simply replacing it with some nice music such as that found in the
"auto-music" (quicktracks.)

If there were several "picture in picture" effects such as that in "24" or "Lost" he may have been using MediaStudio Pro which has several video tracks. Although that can be accomplished with VideoStudio you have to keep adding a clip, rendering, then adding another clip and rendering again.

This is where all the fun is in editing video's.