The ceremony film

The ceremony film is one continuous block from the ceremony, every camera synced to the recorder, ready to cut. You build it from the film builder. This article covers what Hailo does with the footage and what you get back.

What Hailo looks for

Hailo finds the ceremony inside your footage on its own. When you build in One camera mode, or when you run the ceremony as part of a full analysis, point it at the day's audio and it works out which recording is the ceremony and which cameras were rolling on it, then builds one continuous block, from the opening words through the recessional.

You do not have to isolate the ceremony files first. A folder holding the whole day's audio is fine.

In Stack the angles and Multicam modes you point Hailo at the ceremony cameras yourself, and it syncs those cameras to the audio you gave it. Nothing is trimmed away; the whole overlap lands on the timeline.

How the build runs

The build runs in phases, and the headline on the build screen names each one: "Reading your footage", then "Finding the ceremony in your footage", then "Syncing your angles", then "Writing your timeline" and, for a One camera build, "Rendering the film".

Rebuilding after a settings change is much faster than the first build.

What lands in your editor

Piece	Where it is
Every camera angle	One video track per camera, lined up to the recorder. In Multicam mode, one multicam clip instead.
Camera audio	Kept on each camera's clip but muted. Unmute it if you want the room.
Master audio	The recorder on A1.
Normalised copy (switch on)	The levelled recorder on A1, with the untouched recorder muted on A2 as a reference.
Raw recorder (switch off, default)	The untouched recorder on A1 and nothing on A2.

The Normalize audio switch on the film builder decides the last two rows. Off keeps the file exactly as the recorder wrote it. On evens the loudness so quiet vows and loud claps sit together.

What the file is depends on your editor:

• Premiere Pro opens the stacked angles as a sequence. With Multicam chosen, Hailo builds a real multicam clip for you if one-click multicam is on, or saves the multicam beside the timeline for you to import. See Open in Premiere Pro.
• Final Cut Pro opens an .fcpxml with a true multicam clip. See Open in Final Cut Pro.
• DaVinci Resolve gets its project built for it, with the multicam opened at the first point where every camera is rolling. See Open in DaVinci Resolve.

The preview

After the build finishes, Hailo renders a 720p preview of the film in the background. When it is ready, Preview the film appears on the done screen. Click it to watch the cut inside Hailo with the recorder audio. The preview is for checking the sync and the in and out points. It is not a deliverable; the timeline in your editor references your original files at full quality.

Tips

• Give Hailo the ceremony folders, not the whole day, when you use Stack or Multicam. It syncs everything you give it.
• Two cameras is the minimum for Stack and Multicam. With one camera, switch to One camera.
• If a camera did not match, the done screen says so: "2 of 3 cameras synced. C80 could not be matched." Usually that camera never heard the same room as the recorder. Add it by hand in your editor.

If it didn't work

What you see	What to do
The build found the wrong recording	Point the Audio field at the ceremony recorder files only, rather than the whole audio folder.
The block starts late or ends early	Build again in Stack the angles mode, which puts the whole overlap on the timeline with no trimming.
"Only one camera here. Stacking needs at least two - add another camera, or switch to One camera."	Add a second camera folder or switch the mode.