How to get a great wedding video

Your wedding video editing starts long before post-production efforts of the editor.
Since we shoot and edit all of our own videos, we can see the finished video in our mind as we take the shots.

We know the desired outcome before we get to the wedding video editing and post production work.
Our goals are to create a cinemagraphic video that accurately portrays the feelings, emotions,
sights and sounds of your wedding day and our editing process goes right along with those goals.

The wedding video editing process
Wedding video editing works like this: We start by bringing back the raw footage from your wedding
and importing it into our computer systems for editing. That transfer takes 4-6 hours depending on
the amount of footage that we took.

After the import we use editing software by ADOBE to take the footage that is on our computers to do a rough cut.
This is the time where we go through the footage and cut out the parts that do not add something to the finished film.
We call it a rough cut because we don't do the fine trimming of clips or transitions at this time.
IWe also don't do any title work on the video either at this time. This process usually takes about 5-6 hours.

After the rough cut, we will take the first couple of songs that you gave us (if applicable) for your video
and add them to the footage. This way, we know about how much time we will have for some of the beginning
sequences of the video and we will start trimming clips to fit the songs. We don't just fit the times,
but we also like to find the spots in the songs that make an impact and match the video to those parts.
The opening sequences will be 4-10 minutes on your video, but will take us about 4-5 hours to edit properly.

Now that the opening sequences are done, we will move into the ceremony. During the ceremony, we will
edit the two or three cameras together and synchronize the voices from the wireless microphones that we used.
Since there are a total of 2-4 microphones used at your wedding, it takes a while to get the perfect
match of sight and sound. This process takes about 3-4 hours.

After the ceremony, the focus is on the introduction of the reception sequence and moving the audience
(people watching the video) to the reception. This process is similar to the process for creating the
opening sequence.

The final steps in the wedding video editing process are editing the reception, the departure and the
credits on the video. Definitely the most time consuming part of the editing process, the reception will
be cut and trimmed to capture the best moments from the celebration. Our goal for this portion is to
find a way to capture the experience of what it was like to be there. Watching people dance could be
boring if not edited well and we have seen hundreds of videos that were boring. During the reception,
the editing process is so key to creating something alive or something you would never watch again.

Credits and ending sequences can take a couple of hours to produce but really end the film well.
As we create your video for you, please let us know if you have any more questions
about the wedding video editing process.