Questions for the wedding editors

Chris Harding · July 17th, 2011, 07:02 PM

Hi Chris

What does "8 hours" have to do with quality??? If a wedding is shot with 6 cameras, nothing synced, and the colour balance is way off then it will take a huge amount of work to make "watchable" ..BUT even after 40 hours of editing the quality might still be terrible!!!

You can easily have a single or dual cam shoot with nicely composed shots, minimum waste footage and colour balance almost perfect which any editor could neatly wrap up in less than 8 hours. (Obviously rendering and DVD authoring takes longer) but whether an edit takes 4 hours or 40 hours, quality doesn't even come into the mix... out of focus and badly exposed footage can maybe be attempted in an edit but it will still be low quality!!

Chris

Chris Bryan · July 17th, 2011, 08:13 PM

Hi Chris,

I guess you're right, quality is the wrong word, the video can be of high quality but boring. I guess I'd love to see an example of a wedding that took 8 hours to edit and isn't just a bunch of cross dissolves and is something that the couple will actually want to pull out and be proud to show to their friends and family. It's my personal taste, but I find that brides I work with do notice motion graphics and time spent color grading the video. I charge enough to make it worth my while and they are willing to pay the extra money to have a video that they will cherish.

Johannes Soetandi · July 17th, 2011, 11:32 PM

I guess it depends on what type of video you are producing. If you are producing something complicated like highlights, then obviously you will need to spend more time. But if it's documentary style, then it is easier to edit given that your footages are of good quality.

And surely it depends on how good you get. I've seen some amazing SDEs done in 2 hours that is far better than what I could produce in 4 hours or even more.

July 17th, 2011, 07:02 PM	#31
Chris Harding Inner Circle Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Perth, Western Australia Posts: 8,441	Re: Questions for the wedding editors Hi Chris What does "8 hours" have to do with quality??? If a wedding is shot with 6 cameras, nothing synced, and the colour balance is way off then it will take a huge amount of work to make "watchable" ..BUT even after 40 hours of editing the quality might still be terrible!!! You can easily have a single or dual cam shoot with nicely composed shots, minimum waste footage and colour balance almost perfect which any editor could neatly wrap up in less than 8 hours. (Obviously rendering and DVD authoring takes longer) but whether an edit takes 4 hours or 40 hours, quality doesn't even come into the mix... out of focus and badly exposed footage can maybe be attempted in an edit but it will still be low quality!! Chris

July 17th, 2011, 08:13 PM	#32
Chris Bryan Regular Crew Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: New York, NY Posts: 78	Re: Questions for the wedding editors Hi Chris, I guess you're right, quality is the wrong word, the video can be of high quality but boring. I guess I'd love to see an example of a wedding that took 8 hours to edit and isn't just a bunch of cross dissolves and is something that the couple will actually want to pull out and be proud to show to their friends and family. It's my personal taste, but I find that brides I work with do notice motion graphics and time spent color grading the video. I charge enough to make it worth my while and they are willing to pay the extra money to have a video that they will cherish.

July 17th, 2011, 11:32 PM	#33
Johannes Soetandi Major Player Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Perth, Australia Posts: 387	Re: Questions for the wedding editors I guess it depends on what type of video you are producing. If you are producing something complicated like highlights, then obviously you will need to spend more time. But if it's documentary style, then it is easier to edit given that your footages are of good quality. And surely it depends on how good you get. I've seen some amazing SDEs done in 2 hours that is far better than what I could produce in 4 hours or even more.