Back From Florida

Just got back from Florida last night. The video convention was awesome. I had a little problem getting to Florida Monday when I missed my flight. The traffic was terrible due to the heavy snowfall that morning. I finally got to Florida around 11:00 pm. I was really bummed that I missed the award banquet Monday night. I had submitted a few videos for the International Competition and would of loved to have been there to find out if I was lucky enough to have won one. As I was walking thru the hotel, I was greeted with a big hug by fellow videographers from Oklahoma, Mark And Trish of Picture This Productions. They told me that I won 2 Awards and one of them was First place (Diamond Award). I was overcome with joy and it made Monday not to be so bad after all. That’s 2 years in a row I’ve won first place in one of the categories. I feel so Blessed!

My presentation of the Live Edit went well on Tuesday. I was given 8 hours of raw footage of a wedding in New York by the Association. I was to edit a recap with the footage on stage in front of an audience. Here is the Promo for it.

After the presentation and thru out the convention week, I was approached by many saying that they had enjoyed my seminar and learned a lot from it. That made me feel really good to be able to pass on my knowledge of editing to videographers around the country. The other two editors, Chris Watson from Texas and Julie Hill from California, did a great job with their Live Edit. It was cool to see how each of us created different styles of edit from the same raw footage.

Here is my Live Edit.

I learned a lot from the convention and I cannot wait to implement some new ideas and techniques to my wedding movies.