Thanks for encouraging me to do the SDE.

P-Moreau M-Wong ROCK!

~Casey Warren

Matt,

For SDE workflow, we went with pretty much the fastest and most efficient way to get the clips into FCP and onto the timeline and cut to the music that we could think of.

The first thing we did was found a song that would work. One with pretty good pace, etc. We put the song in FCP the night before the wedding and placed markers on all the parts where the song had beats that would make good cuts.

Then on the day of the wedding we basically tried to load as much footage as we could from the P2 cards into FCP. We placed in and out points on the clips when they were in the log and transfer window and basically chose our edits from there.

It went pretty smoothly until the ceremony footage started coming in and we ran out of empty cards and we were forced to recycle some cards and delete the footage that was on them (always a bit scary) but all went well as we had a couple G-drive 250GB mini's for redundancy.

~Casey Warren

Hey Casey,

Thanks heaps for your detailed response. Looking forward to seeing more of your work!

Cheers,

Matthew.

Thank you for the compliments and thoughts. I am actually working on the highlights right now, should be up in a couple weeks after I get back from a short trip.

I shot with a whole bunch of 16GB P2 cards.... I think 10 of them. But they hold about 40mins each when in DVCPRO HD 24pN mode on the HVX.

I didn't shoot too much overcrank footage since I like to get the audio recorded on the 24p track. But the stuff that is overcranked in the video is shot in 60pN mode. Slow-motion on the HVX is awesome. Just wish is was 1080p! :)

~Casey Warren

Drew,

Hey, great to hear from ya! We should meet up sometime when im in Cali later this summer. Thanks for the awesome compliments, and yes SDE's are crazy! but fun nonetheless :)

The song is "Into The Fire" by Thirteen Senses....they have a whole bunch of other really good music as well. I think there from the UK, not sure, but excellent group! I heard of them about a year ago from a friend and got hooked.

At the reception I am exporting straight from FCP as Export>Quicktime Movie using all the same settings as the sequence. It works really well, just its a pretty huge file size. But if you use VLC player or even Quicktime and have 3+ GB of ram your all good.

Yeah, I just plug my laptop directly into the projector. I have also used the Apple TV to store videos on and then connected the HDMI out to the projector. It works great, but its only 720p. The laptop definitely works better for SDE stuff.

~Casey Warren