March 27th, 2008 by edit1media

Here is a link to an article printed the other day in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. I had finally gotten around to sending out some press releases for the First Place Telly Award we received for this short documentary and they decided to write a story. The only thing wrong is that we didn’t bring the survivors out to the island, the museum director did. I’m going to have to see if they can correct that. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the article!

http://starbulletin.com/2008/03/24/features/story01.html

Corporate, Hawaii, News

February 23rd, 2008 by edit1media

Wow….Chris and I attended Urban Unveiled at Benroya Hall last night and it was spectacular! It was a very swanky atmosphere and we saw lots of familiar faces including several of our clients who are getting married this year!

Our friend and DJ-royale, Austin Beaver from Nite Lite Entertainment made sure to introduce us to people that we didn’t already know too! (Thanks so much for taking the time to do that, Austin!) And if YOU are still looking for a DJ consider hiring Austin…not only is he a super nice guy, but he can rock the house and keep your event running smoothly all at the same time. Talk about talent!

It was a fun night and hopefully we will be participating in the next show! If you missed it last night, you really did miss a fantabulous evening so keep your eyes peeled for the next show and BE THERE!

On a different note, we FINALLY sent out some press releases about a few awards we won. This was posted today on a Hawaii News Site and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin will be running a story in the newspaper soon. Fun!

And I PROMISE I’ll post some more video soon! Just been busy, busy, busy lately!

Awards, Networking, News, Urban Unveiled, Wedding Show

February 7th, 2008 by edit1media

Chris and I attended the 4Ever Group’s Video ’08 Convention in Orlando two weeks ago and taught in three seminars. At the awards banquet we were announced as one of the Top 25 Hottest and Most Influential Videography Studios for the second year in a row! This is a huge honor because it is our peers…other videographers…who voted for us. We are in awe of the talent that is on the list this year and thank everyone who voted for us!

The theme to the Top 25 is an All-Star theme, just like in baseball. So in addition to a nice plaque, we received baseball jerseys that say Randall on the back and a baseball card with our ‘stats’. Now you’ll see why we needed a new head shot! Here is our card:

Awards, Business, News, Training

February 2nd, 2008 by edit1media

wedding show + Seattle

Business, Crazy Schedule, Networking, News, Wedding Show, Weddings

December 26th, 2007 by edit1media

Come and see us at the Seattle Wedding Show on January 5th and 6th at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center. We are one of the show sponsors and have two booths at the show, so you can’t miss us! This show is HUGE and all about weddings! Make sure you wear comfy shoes and plan on attending both days if you can…you can get your hand stamped on the way out on Saturday so you can return without paying again on Sunday. If you’d like some $2 off coupons, please let me know ASAP and I’ll send you some! To find out more about the show visit www.weddingshow.com.

There are over 400 vendors at the show and everyone goes all out decorating their booths. There is also lots of food and cake samples to try and a fashion show! It’s like DisneyWorld for brides!

And speaking of DisneyWorld….here’s a short video from Christmas morning with our kids. Make sure you watch for the surprise!

Business, Networking, News, Personal Life, Video Clips, Wedding Show, Weddings

October 8th, 2007 by edit1media

Chris and I were invited to a retreat for the “Top 25 Videographers” in Riverside, California. Since it’s already getting cold and rainy in our neck of the woods, not to mention we never take any time for ourselves, we decided to go!

So we laneded in Ontario, California today and it’s a gorgeous, cloudless sunny day. We are staying at the historic Mission Inn and I even indulged in a wonderful massage this afternoon. Boy did I need that! Our friend Julie Hill from Elysium Productions is going to pick us up shortly to take us on a tour of all the great wedding spots in the “OC” and then we are meeting up with another videographer friend, Daniel Boswell from dvArtistry for drinks later tonight.

Tomorrow and Wednesday we’ll be getting together with a majority of the “Top 25″ to talk about ways we can help increase the respect for wedding videography and talk about new ideas…and just to visit with some great friends and get some inspiration! So Andrew is holding down the fort while we are gone and hopefully keeping the editing train rolling!

Believe it or not we didn’t bring any sort of camera…not a still camera or a video camera, so I doubt I’ll have any photos to post. You’ll just have to use your imagination!

wedding video + high definition

Awards, Crazy Schedule, Networking

July 17th, 2007 by edit1media

Just a quick and very belated post to brag for a moment!

In May Edit 1 Media was honored with a First Place Telly Award for a short documentary video that is in the movie theater of the Pacific Aviation Museum in Honolulu, HI. This short movie was filmed on Ford Island, a small island in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii that the US battleships surrounded on the morning of December 7, 1941. The story highlights two men who were 19 yeard old during the attack and who helped other men out of the burning waters of Pearl Harbor. Their lives were dramatically changed that fateful day and our film took them back to Ford Island where a new museum was being built. It’s an extremely powerful film that shows two men still haunted by war over 65 years after the attack.

I’m proud to say that my father, Allan Palmer the CEO of the Palmer Group along and my brother, Steven Palmer (graphics, design and so much more), my sister Adrienne Palmer (website) and the awesome curator named Mike Wilson (who is practically family) were almost completely responsible for raising this musuem from nothing. Upon the museum’s opening on December 7, 2007 we were so proud to be a part of perserving an important piece of American history. The thousands of people in attendance made every hard moment of work worth it for all of us.

We are so honored to have been blessed by this experience and being able to meet such incredible people as Herb Franck, Ernie Olson, Gen. Chuck Yeager, Gen. Robin Olds, Wally Schirra, John Finn, and countless others. The Palmer Group ROCKS!!!!

Awards, Corporate, Hawaii, Travel, wedding videographer, Weddings

February 3rd, 2007 by edit1media

February 3, 2007

If you’ve read anything else in our blog or have ever met me, you probably realize how passionate Chris and I are about Same Day Edits. I really feel they make such a huge impact on weddings and corporate functions that it’s worth the extra stress to be able to pull these off for our clients. I’m also convinced that this service is elevating the perception of videography, which (hopefully) helps all professional videographers!

So I thought I’d give ourselves a little plug. Last year I created a training DVD to go along with my seminar at the 4Ever Group Video ’06 conference. Not only does it take the viewer step-by-step on creating a Same Day Edit, but it also teaches you about selling SDE’s, the necessary equipment needed, creating templates, etc. I have also received some great feedback from people who have bought the DVD who still aren’t doing SDE’s yet, but they said the DVD was a great help with overall editing and organizational ideas.

The DVD is about 50% ‘hands-on’ editing info. We currently use Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 but all the ideas can be applied to any NLE. There are also seven (I think!) actual Same Day Edits that you can watch either with or without voice over of me discussing why a certain shot was used, a tid bit on how it was edited, etc. etc.

So here is where you can buy this gem of a DVD:

4 Ever Group Store

Pixel Pops Online Store

training

Same Day Edit

January 18th, 2007 by edit1media

January 8, 2007

I’ll try to make this brief because this weekend was just insane and there is way too much to write!

The Seattle Wedding Show was Saturday and Sunday. We had two booths and eight non-paid clients who volunteered their time to help us. What amazing clients we have!!! I believe the final count was over 8,000 people attended and we handed out over 2,000 demo DVDs. One of our booths was dedicated to showing the difference between High Definition and Standard Definition and with a very impressive demo. It was great to see vendors we haven’t seen in awhile too! Overall it was a successful and fun show! I can hardly wait until next year! Thank you to Sharon of Third Day Creations for making our booth so beautiful with the flowers and candles!

After the show, we had to break down the booths and get to the airport to take off to Jacksonville, Florida for the 4Ever Group’s Video ’07 Conference. After flying all night we got in this morning and took a nice long nap! Then we headed out to the Awards Banquet where we had a seat waiting for us next to our buddies from Pixel Pops in Dallas, Texas. I handed out quite a few of the awards, including quite a few from a company I had never heard of before! Below is a photo of Chris and I with our new Top 25 award. Then the party started!! It’s nice to be able to let loose once a year and have Cosmopolitans to my heart’s content and gab with old friends and make some new ones! Videographers rock!!

This week I will be on two panels…one on Same Day Edits and one on Judging. I’m also going to be doing a Same Day Edit of the conference on Wednesday. Then we head out on Thursday so we can do Jill & Bart’s wedding on Friday. Crazy week, but that’s our life and we love it!

wedding

Awards, Crazy Schedule, High Definition, Seattle, Travel, Wedding Show

January 15th, 2007 by edit1media

November 15, 2006

We received a phone call from Stephen Nathans, the editor of EventDV Magazine that we were voted as one of the Top 25 Hottest and Most Influential Videography Studios! This is an award in which other videographers from all around the world vote on, so it’s a huge honor to have such recognition from our peers! We were really surprised to be on this list, but totally excited too!!! What an honor!

This award will be officially announced at the 4Ever Group’s Video ’07 Conference on January 8th. I’m going to be a very busy bee that day with giving out awards after being a judge and also receiving this really cool honor too! Another plaque for the wall…ya gotta love it!

business

Awards, wedding videographer