Re: Getting into Videography | Workflow, Equipment, and length
Tabor Warren Photography said:
Hello!
We are looking to get into the videography market and I have two questions.
1) What software do you all use during your workflow? We have the photo workflow down to an art, but was not sure which software is most recommended for video work.
2) What extra equipment would you all recommend for the videography aspect of the wedding? Our current gear is designed around our wedding photography, but I assumed that it can be subbed for videography as well. Based on videographers I have worked with in the past, our output should be much better quality than those I have worked with in the past shooting video with their rebels, though I'm certainly not against investing in the cinema line if I need to.
My current lineup is;
4 5Diii's
17-40 f/4L
24 f/1.4L ii
24-70 f/2.8L ii
35 f/1.4L
50 f/1.2L
70-200 f/2.8L ii
85 f/1.2L ii
100 f/2.8L Macro IS
What else do I need?
Thank you for your expertise!
-Tabor
I shoot my stuff with a 5D3.
I bring my footage in with Lightroom, I have presets that bring in the video, catalogs it..and puts copies in my work area and to a backup NAS unit.
I use FCPX as my editor. ON next project I plan to start to teach myself Premier Pro...I figure it is good to know as many apps as you can.
I use Davinci Resolve for color correction and grading.
I use After Effects for well....SPFX.
I bring everything in to Davinci Resolve first after the files are on my work drive. I render off some prores medium level copies and XML.
I bring the XML into Final Cut Pro X...I do my editing, etc. there. When done, I usually make a project copy and strip out audio, etc. that was not in the original footage. I generate XML out of the edit to bring into resolve.
I open resolve import the xml, tell it NOT to bring in the footage and that way, Resolve knows to use the original footage just edited to the specs FCPX says.
I do my color correction and then grading here...back to FCPX with xml for final tweaking. If I've done any AE work with the first set of FCPX clips, I go into AE and just replace those with the colored versions and render and put everything together in FCPX, I do my sound tweaking and then I render out the finished product.
That ALL being said....Davinici Resolve now has a pretty decent editor built into it. I would advise you get the Lite version (free and has about 99% of functionality of the paid version), get familiar with that and try full workflow through there...bring in...edit, color...render out finished product. That would be the quickest way to likely start with NO money put out for it.
Resolve is from BlackMagic design..who is also putting out Fusion, that appears to be an After Effects rival...also for free.
Anyway..give that a try.
I would advise for sound, you get LAV mics hooked to small digital recorders on your talent/brides/grooms and sync sound later in post...good sound is very important. A good app that is cheap for syncing automagically is called PluralEyes...and you can incorporate it with your workflows in Premier or FCPX.
If you're on a mac...FCPX is only about $300 and very intuitive to learn. But like I said, I'm going to learn Premier too....you can never have too many toolsets under your belt. I think FCPX helps one learn the principals, and concepts of video editing a bit easier than something like Premier. From what I've found even though the editing platform is different, PP isn't that hard to pick up after you've learned about editing in general from FCPX. I'd think going the other way with PP first...might make it a bit tough to figure out and translate into FCPX...but, maybe not.