April 13, 2006
The Video
I had no choice but to not write about this until after my package arrived. A surprise package that contained a dozen DVD copies of the wedding video that Jenn and I put together for my newly married daughter, Teri, and my son-in-law, Kyle, readers of this blog. It arrived today, much to the happy couples delight.
The cliche, “labor of love”, certainly comes to mind with this project. Here’s the labor part. Two weekends ago, after dabbling the previous week selecting and editing pictures collected from the cameras of friends and family members, we spent every waking moment of both Saturday and Sunday putting the 40 minute presentation together, creating graphics including a very cool cover shot we took of the table centerpiece and invitations they created by hand, and timing the images with the wedding music they had selected. It was this latter process that caused the most problem as what we were previewing in the software was not what we were seeing when we “captured” the file or burned test DVD’s. So, the following week was spent editing the music so that the critical moments, such as the bridal dance, dropped in at the very moment “I Swear” started. There were many other moments when music and image were magical. It was at best, tedious, but we got ‘er done and I’ll tell you something - there was so much joy in the faces of everyone who attended their wedding in those photos and so many moments when Jenn and I got teary-eyed watching this over (and over), we wouldn’t trade one frustrating moment for anything!
I’d love to be able to show you the Wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Kyle Watters, but I’m sure you wouldn’t be receptive to downloading a 1.5 Gig file:-)
Rick
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