Training Videos

Much of The Last Cut’s work is creating internal training videos and lectures for a variety of corporations. While these are admittedly not the fanciest videos to demonstrate to our customers, they are incredibly effective for internal communication and education.

The Last Cut offers a variety of different options, styles, and techniques to creating these videos, including live broadcasting. For more information, contact us at 408.515.7246 or on our contact form here.

Product for Education

TCI (Teachers Curriculum Institute) contracted us some years ago to promote one of their products for academic achievement, with the “Geography Alive!” program. TCI has returned since to have us help them with other product videos and even consultation on their training rooms.

Simple Interview

Want a great simple interview video for your website that will really tell everything about your business?  The Last Cut has been creating simple viral videos such as this one for years.  The great part is that these cost less than you would think! Send us an email via our contact form or give us a call.  Let us tell you how you can get something like this on your website or YouTube for as little as a few hundred dollars!



Studio S Squared Interview from Ted Banucci on Vimeo.

Photo Montages

We have been offering photo montages since the inception of our business, but they have changed a little over the years.  Here is a little sample (using random pictures) of a photo montage that we typically create for weddings.

This is actually our low-end style photo montage.  We also create 3-D style photomontages that you can request to see, as well as traditional style photo montages.  Hope you like!

Add Video To Your LinkedIn Profile

Did you know that you can add a video to your LinkedIn profile? What a great addition this would be to get people to know you better and see the real you.

We can help you to make this great video at a low rate, just hit our contact form for more info!

As for inserting the video, check out this blog post by our friends at SimplyZesty, a PR and social media firm based in Dublin, Ireland!

Video For Alumni Campaign

We recently worked with Archbishop Mitty High School, which is a well known and highly recognized private school in West San Jose. Some well known alumni have attended Mitty, including Olympic medal winners Brandi Chastain (Soccer- 1996, 2000) and Kerri Walsh (Beach Volleyball- 2004, 2008).

Mitty’s goal was to make an emotional impact on alumni by conjuring up past memories through stories, images, and ideals that have tested time. We interviewed about 15 people with different perspectives on their Mitty experiences, and ended up taking about 3 hours of footage, compressing it down to 3 minutes. While certainly not the ideal production situation, we made it happen!

This video was shot entirely in HD for the web, and came out beautifully. I only wish I was able to use some of the other HD footage that we captured, there was so much to choose from! It was my first “official” video using the Canon 7D for B-Roll purposes, and I had a fun time integrating it’s look into the final product.

Have a look and tell us what you think. Have an idea like this for your own educational facility, non-profit organization, or company? Give us a call and let us help you get the ball rolling!

October SVTweetup and my Canon 7D

The Last Cut Video Productions is proud to announce a new tool to our arsenal of HD video cameras! We’ve been studying the effects of SLR cameras and their HD video functionality for some time now, and could just not hold back our drool anymore (it was a lot of laundry)! So about a month ago I went out and bought a Canon 7D on a whim, and luckily already owned a few lenses to work with (although I foresee this getting very expensive by adding many more).

The 7D brings a whole new look to our videos, by adding a huge depth of field in the shots, giving a more professional look and allowing us to tape in tight situations (which we somehow get into a lot).

I have recently started attending the Silicon Valley Tweetup (http://www.siliconvalleytweetup.com/). You can find me on Twitter under @LastCut.

The SVTweetup is just a bunch of people coming together to have a good time and network, but it supports a great cause, donating to various funds such as the Anissa Lopez Foundation. Free drinks and prizes make this a must attend event! We were there at the recent October (Halloween) Monster Mashup and were asked by the heads of the event to take some video…. so we did!

Here is the result of those efforts:

The Divorce Video

As a follow-up to the Jill Peterson and Kevin Heinz wedding march, here is the divorce video!

It’s a parody people!

Copyright Music in Weddings- New Factors



The last time I wrote, I talked about the now famous Jill Peterson and Kevin Heinz wedding march on YouTube, which gave a whole new meaning to wedding entrance. Today I read a great follow up article by the New York Times about it’s monetary effects of a song that not only is over a year old, but is performed by spurned girlfriend-beating recording artist, Chris Brown.

Read the article here on the New York Times site.

The song (Forever) has skyrocketed in sales to #4 on iTunes and #3 on Amazon! All of this from a viral video, giving Chris Brown some much needed money for attorney fees.

You may be asking right about now about what I’m getting at here, is it another shameless self-promotion of professional wedding video coming to the rescue? Normally, yes, it would be (what else would I use this blog for)! However, I found a different message that I can harp on this week.

For those that do not know, it is not “technically” legal to use the copyrighted works of other artists within our videos, whether it be music from a well known artist, photos from another professional photographer, or stock video from another videographer (why a video guy would do that anyway is beyond me). I say “technically”, because when it comes to music, there is a decades long debate about the validity of using popular songs in wedding video, which has been an internal struggle among videographer associations around the world.

Half of the videographers say that this is a personal wedding video that is not being mass produced, and therefore should be able to use favored songs. Just as if someone was editing their vacation video in iMovie, where they can select any of their favorite iTunes to appear in the movie from within the application.

Others say that any use of outside artistry infringes on copyright, and artists should get paid for their work. After all, a videographer would not want his wedding video mass-distributed by someone else and not given proper credit for their work too, right?

There are a multitude of other arguments and factors in this debate, but these are the core points of each. (We happen to offer your favorite popular music for your wedding videos in case you were wondering).

But now, back to the point of the topic: Chris Brown just made a few extra million off of a wedding video! What the publishers and music giants have been arguing against all along is that they are not making money off of music being illegally used in “small distribution” videos. What some of us videographers have been countering all along is that not only are these songs being bought to play in the videos, but the videos are actually promoting the songs and artists to people watching them! And now, this viral video has lent substantial proof to that theory! All we needed was a large scale demographic of that to show us! Before viral video, we only has small groups watching videos, so that the theory could not be substantiated.

This is what I say to the music publishers, bigwigs, and music artists- let us create videos to your songs without recourse, and with your blessings. Part of the sentimentality of wedding video is an aural sensation that the bride and groom can emotionally connect with. In our culture, so many memories have been connected with that of music. Why not attach those songs to people’s most visual memories, like that of a wedding day or other sentimental event?

What are your thoughts on this subject? We’d like to know!

Great Entrance for Wedding

A friend forwarded this video to me today, it’s going viral quickly!  The concept is so great, I love the new take on the boring old entrance.

HOWEVER….. what was this couple thinking not getting this professionally recorded?  Everyone that attended this wedding is going to talk about this forever!  This is one of the most unique wedding entrances in history!  Wouldn’t they want to preserve the moment in the best way possible?

Just imagine how fun the rest of this wedding was, but I’m sure none of that was recorded either.  Could have captured so many great moments to share with family, friends, children… and history!

Video below…..

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