Thank you for taking the time to help me...your suggestions are great....
----- Original Message ---- From: Lee Menningen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2008 11:14:39 AM Subject: RE: [AP] New version Wedding samples You're showing excerpts from three weddings in one video - is this to be a promotion for Family Focus Video, or are these just excerpts of three projects you're working on? I ask because the treatment would be different in each case. The biggest problem with the finished product is the absence of sufficient video to work with. Notice how many unique shots are in the example from Taky, and notice the emphasis on human interest and how things were worked in to tell the story. (They do some nice camera movements that you won't be able to replicate, but that is OK). It's not unusual for me to have 20-100GB from which I'll keep only seconds or minutes, but one has to take the shots in the first place to have them available during editing. Given what you have to work with in Premiere Pro in this case, though, there still are a couple of tactics you can consider. 1. There is no audio from the video for Erin. If you have it, consider including it at least as an undertone to the music like you did for Nichol. It doesn't have to be 100% intelligible under the music but it would be better than the silent-film look when Erin is talking. 2. The Spruce Point Inn awning shot should be limited to maybe 1-2 secs, and the video pan of it should be shortened. The viewer needs only a glimpse of the building to understand that the following video is at that location. 3. During Nicol's the music is noticeably turned down when she talks, which is pointless since the viewer doesn't have to understand what was said because it doesn't add to the story; you're simply letting the viewer know only that something is said. 4. Avoid far away shots like those of Nichol, you can't get audio (or facial expressions) from that distance. If you're going to do video, get up where the action is. 5. Ingrid's is basically a photo show but there should have been more photos with faster transitions. 6. It's best to not transition to black between photos, a cross fade would be better. 7. To get an idea of what can be done with photos, download Microsoft's Photo Story (it's free), load into it all the Ingrid photos you have, and let it make a show with its random default except set the time to 2 seconds, not the default 5 seconds. Now watch the show. Notice how Photo Story does pan and zoom on the photos to make the show more interesting. It's default won't be useable with every photo (zoom accuracy may miss) and you'll want to vary the dwell times, but you can emulate that technique in Premiere Pro to make your show more interesting. Next time you do a wedding my advice is to take lot's of batteries, take well-framed videos continually and creatively throughout the event (some of that footage might be B-Roll, (see http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ B-roll), use an add-on camera mic on each camera, and most importantly, use a tripod equipped with a fluid-head. Then when you get to Premiere Pro you'll have much more to work with. Hoping this helps . Lee From: Adobe-Premiere@ yahoogroups. com [mailto:Adobe-Premiere@ yahoogroups. com] On Behalf Of Don Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 11:33 AM To: Adobe-Premiere@ yahoogroups. com Subject: [AP] New version Wedding samples Check it out....comments welcomed... http://www.youtube. com/user/ dpc1130 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
