That was fantastic. Inspiring and intimidating at the same time but that's why I visit here daily. There was a shot of the groom looking at the bride that was especially moving. I was reminded of how I felt looking into my bride's eyes for the first time.
I'm not familiar with your previous work so you've probably answered the following several times:
1. How many cameras and what type?
2. Steadicam or SteadyGmElliott?

Thanks for the inspiration!

Echoes of above, Glen...Always good stuff from your shop!

That is art. Beautiful nuances and subtle details throughout. Something for me to aspire to. Thanks.
warren

beautiful job again Glenn thank you for sharing and inspiring us wannabee's

Glenn, great job! There are a lot of different ways to do the "fade to bright white" and back again for a transition. How do you set up yours?

Great work!
Jeff

I my self am curious if you're steadycaming those shots. - VERY good as always.

BTW - do you compose your music? or are those tracks that you have purchased?

Dave

Here's the link for you lazy people in a clickable form

Dave

That's beautiful stuff, G. Thanks!

Have you indicated before what you do to get that "film" look?

Obviously great stuff and you probably know that already so here's a few thoughts.
Shot of the couple on the bridge, with the sun in the RHside of frame. I was really expecting that to go in tight on them.
I've been thinking about something I read about music (about which I know less than nothing) that might apply here. The magic number three.
So first shot and second shot are much the same, we now expect the third shot to follow the pattern but if you don't it sparks our interest, if it does it gets flat. Just flying a kite here, maybe someone with more editing experience than me could add to that.
Bob.

i wanna know what you did to get that film look too..

or is it that you just use expensive equipment.

im a camcorder guy myself (nothing too fancy) so im alllllllllways lookin for ways to jerry rig that professional film look

You are the king, man.

If the weddings I've attended through the years were 1/10th as interesting as the wedding footage you shoot, I'd spend a lot less time figuring out how to weasel my way out of going when invited!

I'm with The Learninator: I want to know what gear you use, and how you get that film look.

Also what's your shooting ratio? How many hours do you shoot per hour of finished product?

I'm not in the wedding video biz, but I'd love to apply your methods to my films.

Great job!

cmon Gm....dont be a glory hog! tell us how you did it....spill the beans! lol

He's probably out shooting another wedding - it is a Saturday ya' know?

Good stuff for sure - would be curious to know the details myself!
I'm with the other guys - com'n and spill the beans :)

GM

...thanks for all the feedback. I actually just got in (2am) from Atlantic City. Me and a friend had a gig as ring-side photographers at a mixed martial arts event (like the UFC). I'm pooped- I'll try to reply to all of you very soon. Thanks again everyone.

Glenn, another beautiful video - thanks so much for sharing. In addition ot the film look, if you are willing to share - I am very interested in knowing your Vegas settings for rendering to WMV. Great quality!

-jerry

GM,
Great work. definitly am interested in two things.
1.) the music. It was perfect for the emotion of the subjects, but you know that becuase that's why you used it. My question is where you got it.

2.) The softness in a lot of the pre-ceremony shots. Where these done with a filter on he lens, or done in post? Either way the effect was excellent.

Thanks for sharing
Brian

1. How many cameras and what type?
For typical ceremonies- 3 cameras. One PD170 and two VX2100's.




2. Steadicam or SteadyGmElliott?
All handheld again.

Farss, I haven't even thought about it like that before. I don't have any preconcieved theories or methods when I edit. I just take it one cut at a time, and go with the flow.

My typical time per wedding is 60+ hours- thus my booking per year is very limited.

Regarding the look of the footage- I use a 3-step process I have recently developed over the last 3 weddings. It includes using a mix of "levels", "color corrector", and "glow". I didn't set out to create a "film-look" persay I just tweaked until I liked what I saw....then tried to remember what I did so I can continue to reproduce the same results in the future.

When studying a great deal of my DV footage I find many of them lack lattitude in the blacks. The histogram often falls off early on the left. I tend to crush my blacks just a bit- even so much to have a bit of clipping on the histogram. I go back and retain some of my shadow detail using the glow filter. The glow filter usage is something that is a bit too complicated to describe right now...but please note there are many more uses than making the highlights litterally "glow".

Thanks all for the positive words. As always insight from fellow Vegas users is always welcome.

America and american weddings video!
Congratulations!
I'd like to do the same way in Poland ;-)

Maciek

WMV9, bitrate 1000 kb/s

what cameras did you use gm?