Why I ran this test A wedding day leaves me with hours of footage. In RED RAW 6K straight from the Nikon ZR, one hour is roughly 700 GB, before backups. I wanted to know which format I can live with for archiving and editing, and where the losses start to show. So I took...
Alex Sofo Wedding Films
If the groom’s moment is the stillness right before the doors open, the bride’s is everything leading up to it the dress, the veil, the room full of people who’ve been with her since long before this day, all building toward one single walk. This one-minute reel pulls that build-up from brides across years of...
I have been shooting weddings on Sony for a long time. A7S, A7S II, A7 III, A7R II: cameras that gave me hundreds of weddings, always in Cine2, always 8 bit 4:2:0. For the color in Final Cut Pro X I used FilmConvert, and it did the job for years. Then I moved to the...
Some clients you film once. Others, you get to watch grow literally. A few years after I filmed Ned & Jazzy’s wedding at Villa del Balbianello, Jazzy called me again. This time it wasn’t a wedding it was a family trip. She and Ned came back to Lake Como with Ned’s parents and brother in...
There’s a particular look every groom gets right before the ceremony starts somewhere between nerves and disbelief and it’s one of my favorite things to catch on camera, precisely because it’s the one moment of the day nobody can fake. I put together a one-minute reel pulling that exact moment from grooms across years of...
I mostly shoot weddings. But some of my favorite days with a camera have nothing to do with them. This one was a rehearsal room in Milan, a wall of amps, and a hardcore band of friends of mine writing new songs. The band is Already Buried. The video is 15 seconds long, and it...
Raw video looks great until you look at your drives. The Nikon ZR records R3D NE, and in 6K 50p one hour of footage takes about 1.4 terabytes. The Sony A1, shooting 8K in XAVC HS, needs 118 GB for the same hour. So I put the two cameras side by side on the same...
Some weddings are a day. This one was three. Ilaria and Mauro flew out from Milan with their entire family for a destination wedding in Mykonos three intense days of laughter, emotion, and genuinely non-stop fun, the kind that only happens when you take a wedding out of the usual routine and turn it into...
The Nikon ZR records R3D NE, RED’s raw codec, and the image is beautiful. The files are not. One hour of 6K full frame comes to roughly 700 GB, and 4K at 100 frames per second is well over a terabyte per hour. As a wedding filmmaker who records most of a day, that adds...
Davide and Chiara, both from Rescaldina, got ready separately at their parents’ homes before meeting at the Chiesa dei SS. Bernardo e Giuseppe in Rescaldina for a 10:30 morning ceremony. The real surprise came right after: as they stepped outside as newlyweds, a flash mob broke out on the church steps friends and family bursting...
Alex Sofo Wedding Films