swoop wrote:
"We couldn't afford a pro. Storymix made it possible. Now we have a great video to enjoy forever."
Testimonial from the site.
no.
people do set up community drop boxes for their guests to get all of the photos, but that's
pretty much the end of the road. The closest you could get to the video business plan
would be like making a scrap book. ... not quite the same...
The last wedding I shot used a similar service. I haven't seen the results but I think it is more intimate and their friends never got in the way. Plus if they do get in a shot at least it is a friend/family member opposed to some random hired help in their photo. Of course the results are not going to be the same, but hey different options are great.
people do set up community drop boxes for their guests to get all of the photos, but that's
pretty much the end of the road. The closest you could get to the video business plan
would be like making a scrap book. ... not quite the same...
So someone couldn't take the guests digital files, edit them, make them as pretty as possible, and then design and print an album ?
MarcAnthony wrote:
Friggin' GENIUS.. The company makes money just from editing. They don't have to show up to shoot. I love that idea. I may actually do this on my own. I'll just buy 10 flip cameras and edit them all together for $500. I've done tons of video editing in the past. This is a great idea.
Jeez, it's the editing that's the hard work sometimes! The shooting on the day can be as little as 20% of the work involved in producing a 'good' wedding video!
3catsinky wrote:
OMG, watching this makes me sick. I cant see any couple cherishing something like this over what a true professional can do. I do both photo and video, and even editing another professionals video work frustrates the hell out of me.
Ditto!
Unless you are filming for the edit things can get pretty frustrating very quickly....
marti.g3 wrote:
So someone couldn't take the guests digital files, edit them, make them as pretty as possible, and then design and print an album ?
I think that technically poor footage is much more easily recovered/combined/edited to be
emotive and effective, than still photographs. I think it's just the way the medium works. I
don't think I could take guest shots from a wedding and make an album that I was proud of,
but I do think I could take footage from guest cameras and create a video that makes the
couple laugh and cry. It's just something about movement.
Dave_EP wrote:
Jeez, it's the editing that's the hard work sometimes! The shooting on the day can be as little as 20% of the work involved in producing a 'good' wedding video!
The idea isn't about creating a cinematic video. It's about having a video of the day shot documentary style by guests. If you don't have to meet with a client, you don't have to edit a masterpiece, and you don't even have to attend the wedding AND you can make some decent cash then go for it. Some brides want a high end video. Some just want raw footage. And some just want a basic edited video. I bet I can take 6 cameras with 45 minutes of recorded footage and edit a decent looking video in under 4 hours TOPS. I actually know I can. Not a bad little addition to your arsenal I say.
The video digest I made as a family guest was cherished more than the photos from the pro ...and I got to drink wine that day and play
It is a great idea and the video clips bring the scene to life.
I used proshow producer to piece the iphone mov clips together and then synced license music from triple scoop into the backdrop
I rendered it from proshow producer to TV, HD, iphone, ipad --weaved a few still photos in also
will make it an option for me to combine. Gets the family and friends involved. Single clips don't make it. It is the combined video digest medium that brings emotive response.
jprezant wrote:
I think that technically poor footage is much more easily recovered/combined/edited to be
emotive and effective, than still photographs. I think it's just the way the medium works. I
don't think I could take guest shots from a wedding and make an album that I was proud of,
but I do think I could take footage from guest cameras and create a video that makes the
couple laugh and cry. It's just something about movement.
But remember, its not high end stuff. Its low end. Low end capture, low end post work. Obviously the client would be expecting quality product for the price.
I don't think there is any editing involved in it - it looks like template/theme batch-edited video. For me to make it profitable I would have to complete such project in less then an hour, and the only way to accomplish that is to have all the footage, titles, animations, music already done by client - the editor would be only responsible to fill-in blanks and hit "Export" button.
I don't see any harm in such service - that's way below level of any pro videog. Clients who might pick this service, most likely won't even have budget for pro guy.
As a professional video producer I am up against this type of thing all of the time (corporate environment). It is so much more cost effective to send someone to an event with a "flip" camera than a professional crew with lighting and audio. The justification for poor quality is YouTube and Reality TV. Social media impacts video producers just as uncle bobs impact wedding photographers. However; the cold hard fact is that it's cheaper to send ten "flips" to an event than ten professional crews. Forgive the use of the generic term "flip" as I at least educate my people to use an off board microphones (no mic jack on a Flip) even if they are targeting the "free" spectrum of video production. I could go on here for a few thousand words or so but this is a Photo Forum and not a Video Forum. I just want to say that this is an awesome idea and who'd not want to spend $99 on this for their FaceBook page? I've never watched my engagement video or wedding video. I've shot and produced wedding videos for others and they tell me they've never watched them again. I say tell the bride and groom to pay for a nicely produced engagement video, skip the pro wedding video and spend the dollars saved on a nicer wedding album or more photo coverage.
@G-Gore: you're spot on. It's not really professional editing. $99 would not cover my time when I consider transcoding of the video and export times. But I disagree that this is for people that can't afford a real wedding videographer. This is a social media add-on.
@MarcAnthony: You're spot on too. One thing that will happen here is that in many cases the guests will know "who is important" at a wedding while the pros need to follow the lead of the bride and groom our wedding party.
jprezant wrote:
it says otherwise on the pricing page. 99 includes up to 20 minutes of edited video.
These vids are low quality...
instead:
--The Photographer needs to be the director--at least a $499 option
--Investment: Purchase of 3 digital elph 500 HS = $600 investment
--Photographer sets the Elphs up to shoot all BW, 1080P, f2, 24 mm, IS
--Photographer works with the couple to identify 3 family/friend shooters to be there early.
--Photographer or assistant conducts 5 minute training with each of the 3 shooters on how to shoot the BW video clip digests with shooters who have done video before.
--3 shooters position themselves for the ceremony and then spread out for the event candids
--no more than 10 seconds for each clip
--the 3 elphs are collected at end of event
--photographer brings it all together in a treasure video with music and occasional voice thrus that will beat the emotive reaction of anything he/she did during the day...
--photographer renders to DVD: 1080P HD, TV, Ipad, Iphone 5-10 min shows.
software investment and experience - at least 6 months to a year
min return: >$100/hr
besides the creative charges - I'd say $200 for the creative cohesion editing, think of crunching each video clip in terms of $25 per clip as long as not a lot of editing - you're looking for about 12-24 great clips , and then use some stills for fills.
it will not be as good as the below - which would cost big dollars -- but all it has to be is good enough for low dollars but acceptable profit http://fstoppers.com/amovingmoment
Honestly people who go that route probably are doing it for the novelty of it, not because they want awesome wedding videos. The $99 must be a starting price - with lots of up charges.
$99? How can you make a profit.