Wedding Samples

The Wedding of Jim & Colleen - We videotaped this wedding as a gift. We used two professional 3ccd camcorders on the left and right sides for close-ups and three 1ccd camcorders for "fill-in" shots. Two we placed in the center of the church (one on the main level and one in the production loft) and a third 1ccd camera was hidden behind the stage. This wedding demonstrates the benefit of our five camera strategy. The right side camera was also placed on a camera dolly allowing it to be quickly moved for the recessional and receiving line.

The original, full resolution footage takes just over 12gb of disk space. I compressed the downloads using Windows Media encoder with a 768k variable sampling rate. While the file size is fairly large, it is manageable with a broadband connection. At this compression rate, the downloaded file is throwing away about 97% of the original data, so obviously the quality is degraded.

Part 1 (100mb) | Part 2 (100mb) | Part 3 (75mb)

Slide Show from Jim & Colleen's Wedding (8.5mb) - We took a series of pictures provided by Jim & Colleen and made two slide shows to be broadcast during the service. One used just simple dissolves and one was more complex. Jim & Colleen chose the simple version which flowed very well with Carla Pustina's musical accompaniment. This clip is from the full service video so if you have already downloaded the 80mb version, you don't need this clip. On the final DVD, I also included the original, full resolution slide show instead of the projected images from the service. I also overdubbed the audio using Carla's performance.

Travelouge Video Samples

White Water River Walk, Niagara Falls, ON (15.4mb) - This is an example of a travelogue video. We took our honeymoon to Niagara Falls and shot approximately three hours of video and 500 pictures. Obviously nobody would want to sit through all of that footage, so I distilled it down to about an hour. The result was our friends asking to borrow the video so they could learn about the Niagara region.

Butterfly Conservatory, Niagara Falls, ON (14mb) - This is a second sample from our Niagara movie.

Event Video Sample

Worship at Hidden Valley Community Church (31mb) - This is new footage we shot July 3, 2005 as a test of our new cameras. We had a "lighting challenge" on the high angle camera because of a poorly aimed spotlight and the drummer was not well lit, but other than that, it looks good :-) The sounds was a mix of our newest Rode shotgun microphone and the direct feed from the mixing board. A three frame (1/10 sec) delay imposed by the mixing board made the audio sync a challenge, but fortunately it was fixable in post production. Overall I am very happy with the sound for a live recording.