Steve and Cindy's Wedding.....

June 5th, 2010 my brother married his girlfriend, Cindy Guiterrez. As part of his wedding gift I promised to make a video. Unfortunately there were issues with the raw footage. For one, none of the cameras matched. They all shot at different aspect ratios. As if that weren't bad enough, they all used different file formats. And the final nail in the coffin was when one of the last-second wedding guests stood right in front of the "wide shot" camera. Needless to say that when I got home and started putting the footage together, I was very discouraged. I was trying to edit in Final Cut Pro on a G5. Anyone who has used FCP knows that it is very fussy regarding file formats. After hours of tedious transcoding, I finally gave up. As a "plan B," I tried to use Pinnacle 8, but it was limited to how many files (tracks) I could drag into the project. Even with an eventual upgrade to Pinnacle 14, I was still met with track limitations. Enter Sony Vegas Pro 12... Fed up with the limitations of Pinnacle 14 (a roughly $60.00 program), I finally stepped up to Sony Vegas 12 (a roughly $600.00 program). I needless to say Sony Vegas allowed me to not only use mismatched footage, but I was able to create a multiclip which allowed for linear multiple camera editing. In addition I could drag in as many audio (.wav) tracks as I wished. This really helped, as I had used my H4 Zoom to pick up extra audio. Long story short, it took roughly 2.5 years before I was able to get my brother's wedding video to him. A year later I "remixed" the video to use better fonts, better audio management and video color correction. The video is far from perfect, but if you could see and hear the raw tracks, you would agree that this video is nothing short of a miracle.