Made our own wedding video, what now?

mrsberries

Hi, we videoed our own wedding (well a guest did!) and now have all this footage to use. Just wondering whats the best route baring in mind neither of us are pretty techie minded! Should we hand it over to a pro or is there an idiot proof programme I could use to do this?

Any ideas/ suggestions most welcome

madmac187

The wedding Night

artyeva

it depends on how un-techie you are!!! if your PC/laptop is windows based you should have some basic form of video editor on there, like windows movie maker or some such, not sure what its called on mac - probably something with an 'i' in it - iMovie??!

they will give you basic functions to cut clips together, fade in/out from black, and add basic titles.

you could go up a notch and get your hands on adobe premiere or premier pro. i've used premier pro recently in a film making course and even though it can do millions and millions more things it's basically the same principles as movie maker.

first thing to do though it make a back up copy [or 2 just to be sure] of the footage you have. then work away on one of those copies. there's tons of video tutorials out there on using most popular video editors if you get stuck.

remember though with a wedding video that less is more - any fancy transitions between scenes like zooming/fading/wiping, or titles flying round the screen will date it, and make it nauseating for the viewer looking at it. keep it simple, title, fade up from black, fade down to black at the end, add in any titles you want.... oh - and less is more in terms of time too. do you really need to see the whole 10 mins of auntie mary dancing? will a few seconds get the message accross instead? keep things like that in the back of your mind.

so yeah - it all depends on how techie you are!!! best of luck with it

smelltheglove

As above, it really depends on how capable you are. I fixed up a guest dvd for someone before, shaky and very short. I had to slow down parts to reduce the effect of shaking, delete parts when it was too shaky and because of the fuzzy sound I out music over the entire thing. This was done in windows movie maker that is relatively easy to use, although setting the music up properly is a little bit harder then I used ulead movie software to setup the chapters. In the end it looked like a very short professional dvd, I got around 30 mns out of it but it was a lot of work, and I know how to work this software well so be prepared for spending a bit of time on it.

mrsberries

Cheers for that! Just discovered Windows Movie Maker there - never realised I had it! Will give it a go....

Thanks

davesneddon

Also, don't be afraid to cut a lot of stuff out, less is more especially if you are planning to show it to people! just keep in the important bits.

If there is a lot of footage of guests just hanging around outside the church/ in the hotel, you can cut that down a lot, a few seconds per shot will keep the pace up for viewers.