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Tony Hoffer wrote:
prof_fate wrote:
Over the past few months I've asked every vidoegrapher I've come in contact with and none, not a one, does HD video, or have plans to do it.
prof, did you check out that 'stillmotion' link from the OP? It's really really impressive.... and yes, expensive too...
Might be something a second shooter can work on for parts of the day, so the cost of capture is relatively low. Could be sold I suppose as a video instead of them hiring a videographer. Still have PP issues. Now if you're a big enough business to perhaps have cheap help - HS kid, intern or $10/hour and they can edit it up for $50 (5 hours) your labor cost might be $200 to shoot and edit.
But IMO that's still a lot of work on teh wedding day - mental challenges, lighting challenges - you're learning a new skill set, new career in some ways, and developing a new product to sell.
Why?
For artistic reasons is one thing, but for profit? You'd almost certainly be better off selling something else instead - bigger prints, parent album, ipod w/ pics on it, etc.
I see some value in a video for promotional reasons - that stillmotion vid is cool, put it on your blog or website perhaps, or a dvd you hand out to prospective clients.
What I think will happen is you'll confuse the consumer - "Oh, you do video and still?" when you really don't, or your vid product is very different from what the client expects of a wedding video, althought I suppose you could overcome some of that with more gear, personell, etc. (like recording the whole ceremony, all the dances, etc).
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. One of my BAs is in Radio/Televison. Even with that background, I'm not sure video is something I'd really be interested in adding...it's enough work just doing it with a still camera, I think it would be hard to find a way to work more than just a few clips into the mix with video.