Using a Helicopter to Help Film a Wedding ?

With the changes in the wedding film market, videographers are looking to push the boundaries in terms of what movie shots can be achieved within the constraints of a wedding day.

Ariel wedding day footage

One of these techniques is Ariel videography, capturing setting shots and moments from a sky down perspective. This is achieved by different companies in a number of ways. The easiest and common practice is to mount a light camera onto an air balloon, small RC blimp or just helium filled party balloons. This raises the camera into the air to get perspective shots from above. However wind and bad weather can badly effect this method and also there is little chance of a good vertical moving shot.

With the advent of small high quality, light cameras it is now also possible to mount these on r/c planes and helicopters. This enables some shots that are Indistinguishable from real helicopter Ariel shots used in Hollywood for many years.

All part of a new era for wedding videos

It is time to say goodbye to the cheesy old wedding video and say hello to a new film-like record of your special day, with higher quality footage using hollywood techniques to capture the special moments.

Cinematic wedding films

Wedding videography of the past stayed a bit stagnant. Cameras used to be expensive and difficult to operate professionally, this restricted the amount of competition which ultimately led to videographers not needing to push their videos to be that creative.  Cinematic wedding films have been an advent of increased competition into the videography marketplace, due to cheaper easy to operate cameras of a higher quality.

This has meant increased creativity and everyone looking to constantly produce the best wedding films possible. Cinematic wedding films are films that use film techniques to capture the special moments of the wedding day. This means tracking shots, slow-motion, steadi-cam, aireal shots or any technique used in television or films.

Final Cut Pro X 10.0.3 - an Ideal Solution for Wedding Videographers?

The reaction to Final Cut X realease last year was less than appreciable to what they were trying to achieve! This was manly down to the lack of professional features such as XML, multicam, video monitoring and tape capture

Apple has now sorted allot of these issues with the new updates from 10.0.3 onwards and with the help of external apps. So is it now the ideal solution for the wedding videographer who wants something that can add some magic to their projects with ease, allowing more time for creativeness rather than broadcast output constraints?

Final Cut X in the hands of a wedding videographer

When making a wedding video you want you edting software to be quick due to the amount of footage needed to be ingested and to be trooled through. Final Cut X is a 64 bit application meaning it can make the most out of your computers ram over the 4gb threshold of the old Final Cut Pro 7.

Multicam: Many wedding camermen now use more than one camera to record the important moments, such as the ceremony and speeches. Well Final Cut X new Multicam allows you to cut between 64 cameras! Also you can work with different codecs and frame rates all natively, which means videographers can use their DSLRs for one angle a GoPro for another and thier main camera without having to convert footage or frame rates.

Final Cut X also has inbuilt auto-colour correction and syncing different cameras with the same audio content. With Apple making good it ints promisises to improve Final Cut for professionals it has made it useable to the avergae wedding videographer and editor. It has the best Chroma Keying software in its class anw now has media relink to edit the project on different computers.

Final Cut X an nice bit of kit for making wedding videos.