New Highlights vid

[Forever Endeavor]

As far as highlights go, I feel that this is one of my best videos. I've been trying some new things with color work and transitions and such. Let me know what you think!:

http://www.coloradoweddingvideographer.com/samples.html

Select "Wedding Highlights" on the drop down menu.

[Forever Endeavor]

Anyone?

[HankCastello]

I went to this link once before, but nothing happened.  This time I noticed that you have to choose a video before one plays.  You may want to have a default video and/or make it clearer that a choice should be made.

As for your video -

There is so much that I like.  This is absolutely one of the best highlight wedding videos on the Web!  I liked the angles, the reveal scenes, rack focus, etc., etc.  I liked the scene where the bride enters from right (horseback) and exits stage left.  I liked the way the cuts were made to the music (but in a couple places, I felt the cuts were a few frames late), heck - I liked the whole dang thing - REALLY liked it!

Now this is absolutely better than anything I've done, yet always the critic, I do have some suggestions -

There were a few things I thought could be done better, starting with our old problem of wmv files either not handling contast well or having a tendency toward darkness (scene with boys and swords, etc.).  I thought the ring closeup could be a little closer and that occasionally framing was favoring the right side, composition-wise.

The biggest improvement I felt could be made was to the end.  I'd either end the video on the next-to-last clip (closer of limo pulling away) or on a photo of the couple, but not on the longer limo shot which was too short anyway for a final clip.

[HankCastello]

On your video web page, you have -

We are constantly changing to lead the way in colorado wedding video production.

I would suggest turning the line away from you ("We") and toward the brides -
Your wedding day should be all you dreamed it would be...your wedding video will be all you dreamed it would be.

CAPTURED:  The essence of your wedding day!

etc.

[Forever Endeavor]

Thanks for the input Hank! I've actually redone a few parts of the video because it is so close to being as good as it can. The vid now ends with the couple exiting through the raised swords. I actually did that change before you said that . I will upload it as soon as I get a chance. As far as the wmv thing goes, I'm gonna have to revamp the player using flash or something. I just need to get all the vids rendered again which could take a while. I'm trying to tie up some loose ends and get ready for the beach!

[On a Roll]

Wow, spine-tinglingly good!

The only way I would see to improve it would be maybe to try outputting it to .flv for better color. But then, I really can't complain too much. I've got mine sitting on YouTube, quite possibly the worst place on the net for professional video hosting. (Fortunately that's changing very soon, as we just tripled our bandwidth, allowing me to host all of my videos on our server. I had to save that precious space for my clients back in the day!)

Great work there.

[Forever Endeavor]

Thanks Jim!

I have a friend hosting my site for free with unlimited bandwidth so I'm good there........I've actually been planning to switch over to flv when I have time. Thanks for the comments!

[Josh Crain]

Adam, fantastic!  Beautifully captured and your editing is top notch.

What's the song that's playing over it?  I've never heard it before, but it went great with the video considering the type of ceremony they had.

Speaking of which, what an original ceremony!

I'll just say I liked all that Hank liked.  I think the thing that gives it such a professional look is the great close-ups you're getting of the people and also the fact that the camera is moving (and doing so smoothly) in a lot of the shots.  Those two things really make it more interesting to watch.

Syncing with the music was done very well; the cuts and even the dancing seemed to be right on beat.

Great job, man.

[Forever Endeavor]

Thanks Josh! The song was called "Now we are free" from the gladiator soundtrack. I tried a ton of songs before I could find anything that worked with this wedding. It ws a toughy but a great wedding.