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You shoot weddings, where?

Florida

I've shot 2 weddings. I edited them in iMovie. On this last one which I'm still working on, I shot way more than just the wedding itself. I sort of scripted it. It opens with a slide show of pictures from their childhood and how they met. Next, I have them in various scenes of wedding prep, followed by the wedding, reception, gift opening and shoving off on their honeymoon. Finally more photos (which they took on honeymoon). I really wish I could have had better audio tools. This is one area where I need major improvement.

First I'm gonna get iMovie 3.0 and see what if any tools that adds. Then, I'm going to look at FCE. If I can justify the $$$, I'll get that.

I have a work associate whom just yesterday asked me if there was any way I could export his PeeCee PowerPoint slides to a movie format. I said I would give it try. Not knowing of course that Apple today was going to announce "Keynote". This looks to be a perfect application for just such a project. Thanks for saving my a$$ Apple. 

Actually we charge $1500-2500 for weddings.
We also do commercials, Industrial Videos, Promotional videos and more...

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NAB's later this month (I believe).  I use FCP, and it = good.

I would have gotten Final Cut Pro Express... If i didn't already shell out for the full version!!

Actually, I didn't shell out that much for the full version, as I got the first FCP 1.0 at the student price back in winter '98 (or whenever it first came out-- i ordered it very next week).

So i never really paid full price for FCP or any of it's upgrades, BUT if I wasn't a student, and I needed to get video editing software, i would get FCP Express.

it appears to have the same layer-manipulation capabilities as the full version (something completely lacking in iMovie), and that's my number one need in my style of filmmaking (what style you ask?  the style that uses a lot of still images incorporated with DV footage).

I like having my compositing capabilities and DV editing capabilities in one App, and FCP Express seems to have kept those two parts of FCP in tact just fine.

ps - my wedding videos were so good, that's why i'm now in film graduate school... (and I vow never to do another wedding ever again)

Yeah, I just looked at their website, and I kind of have this thing where I hate to have scaled down versions of stuff.  If I went to FCE, I would definately miss the real-time 3-way color corrector, offline RT, After Effects Plug-in Support, logging and batch capture, and advanced key-framing.  Especially those last two.

But those few features are like 3 times the price, so I don't know.

I kinda like doing weddings.  It's a very special time for a couple and I want to do my best to capture the moment(s).  For me it's the challenge of taking a situation that is counterproductive to videotaping and making it appear to be gold.  Weddings are always dark and you can't always get the angle you want.  That's why I run two cameras (wish I had 3) and edit the heck out of them afterward.  I also design a custom box for each wedding and come up with a different theme for each one.  Each couple gets three copies; one for them, and one for each set of parents.  Everyone has thoroughly enjoyed them.  Repeat business is the best; I'll be doing my third wedding for the same family in May.