Anyone producing same-day edits?

[John Knight]

Originally Posted by Art Varga

I'll add this - watching the reaction of 200 people clapping and cheering after the SDE presentation is something that satisfies your ego abit and is hard to get out of your head.

Hee hee... I think this is referred to as the "Messiah Complex". ;)

[Johannes Soetandi]

Originally Posted by Art Varga

I'll add this - watching the reaction of 200 people clapping and cheering after the SDE presentation is something that satisfies your ego abit and is hard to get out of your head. After 60- 80 hours of work on a DVD, I normally get a nice thank-you email or occasionaly a phone call but never enough recognition for me for the effort I put into my projects. The SDE brings instant gratification - I can't wait to do the next one!

Art

Oh yes.. it doesn't happen every time though, it depends on the crowds. But I once had a fantastic crowd and they cheered and clapped throughout the entire 4 minutes viewing. All those hard work paid off right at that moment. :)

[Susanto Widjaja]

Hi guys,

Allow me to chip in a bit since I have done quiet a few SDE (probably 30-40ish so far)

I started by doing it with 2 people with no charge

Gordon & Lina SDE (Same Day Edit) on Vimeo

had great response, almost died because of rushing everything, had lots of new experience

after a few more sde, started charging $550 for it for a while.. and hired the third person for it. so we basically earned no money for it.

bear in mind that when we do SDE, we no longer do the usual 5 min cinematic trailer for them so I treat SDE as a time saver for post production hence the small charge is worth it in my opinion. Plus, its a great marketing tool and exciting task/challenge for your team to do.

today we charge $1100 for it with still 3 people on the team for SDE shoot. The extra fee is not plenty for a lot of other people. I know my other friends in aussie are charging up to 2500 for SDE but im quite sure they dont do as many SDE as me. So its definitely a choice between whether you want to make a (proper) money for it or do you want to do more of it for other purpose than money.

This is the latest SDE we did (last saturday) I think we have learned a lot since our first one.

Adam + Anna Same Day Edit Experience | Interesting Mix! on Vimeo

[Art Varga]

Originally Posted by Susanto Widjaja

bear in mind that when we do SDE, we no longer do the usual 5 min cinematic trailer for them so I treat SDE as a time saver for post production hence the small charge is worth it in my opinion. Plus, its a great marketing tool and exciting task/challenge for your team to do.
Adam + Anna Same Day Edit Experience | Interesting Mix! on Vimeo

Nice piece Susanto - loved the open sequence!

I normally deliver both a cinematic trailer as well as an extended highlight with all of my packages (without SDE). When I sell an SDE, it replaces both. Again, I've only done one so far but I see this being a big timesaver for me as well.

Art

[Johannes Soetandi]

Santo, was your latest SDE edited on Premiere? And how many cameras on the ceremony? You covered it from quite a few angles.

Btw, that was an awesome ring shot!! Simple but sweet

[Taky Cheung]

Susanto, simply wow! Can't believe it's the SDE. Love the interracial couple.. fun to see a middle eastern guy wearing Vietnamese outfit. All these Chinese door games in the morning is quite a tortune to the groom and the groomsman. but they were fun.

[Susanto Widjaja]

Originally Posted by Art Varga

Nice piece Susanto - loved the open sequence!

I normally deliver both a cinematic trailer as well as an extended highlight with all of my packages (without SDE). When I sell an SDE, it replaces both. Again, I've only done one so far but I see this being a big timesaver for me as well.

Art

That is great that you can have the SDE to replace both trailer and highlight. I don't know how we can do that here but it definitely is an option.

Originally Posted by Johannes Soetandi

Santo, was your latest SDE edited on Premiere? And how many cameras on the ceremony? You covered it from quite a few angles.

Btw, that was an awesome ring shot!! Simple but sweet

Hey nes, we edited it on fcp7... still.... I'm not sure if I can ever detach from it... :P 3 cameras on ceremony since we had 3 people shooting.

Originally Posted by Taky Cheung

Susanto, simply wow! Can't believe it's the SDE. Love the interracial couple.. fun to see a middle eastern guy wearing Vietnamese outfit. All these Chinese door games in the morning is quite a tortune to the groom and the groomsman. but they were fun.

Thanks taky! it was definitely a fun day witnessing italian group doing all the traditional vietnamese stuff.

[Logan McMillan]

I've shot 10 SDE's now - 5 of those by myself (shoot & edit). They are usually about 3 min 30. I take my laptop with me and log as I go. Will shoot some timelapse as well, which I put together in After Effects. Edit is in Final Cut - so footage is transferred to ProRes which takes time. Find it pretty straight forward and I can hand everything off to the client the next day.

I also set up the projector and sound system - which is done just before screening and is never straight forward......lots of sweating.

Here is one I shot a few days ago:

Simon + Danielle | Same Day Edit - YouTube