Weddings
Of all the videos that you are likely to edit, weddings have the most formality and offer the most lessons to learn. Wedding videos, unlike interviews, are edited in chronological order, much the same as for conferences and seminars. There is a set procedure for wedding videos that will save you from wondering where to start first. There are formal parts to the day – preparations, the ceremony, the photoshoot, and the reception, which has an entrance, cake cutting, speeches, and a first dance. I find it best to edit these separately and then combine them at the end.
Most of the time, there will be more than one camera to work with, so multicam syncing will be the next process after the media is organized into categories (see Chapter 8, Setting Up and Editing Multicam for more details). As you will see in the next section, you can organize your media into keyword collections before you start your first project (see Chapter 2, Organizing Media for more details).
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