Use Case

Wedding Highlight Reels, Without the Editor's Invoice

Drag in ceremony, reception, speeches, and first dance footage. Choose the Prestige preset. Get a 5-minute cinematic highlight reel with dissolve transitions and color grading — in minutes, not days.

The Wedding Editor's Dilemma

A typical wedding generates 4–8 hours of raw footage. A professional editor charges $500–$2,000 to produce a 5-minute highlight reel. And turnaround time? Weeks to months.

For couples or studios managing high volume, the math doesn't scale. You need a way to produce polished first-pass edits automatically.

Transforming raw, unedited wedding footage into a polished cinematic highlight reel

The Prestige Preset

Onset Engine's PRESTIGE preset was designed for cinematic, emotionally-driven content. Slow dissolve transitions, gentle zoom drifts, warm color grading, and cinematic letterboxing — the exact aesthetic wedding clients expect.

  • Cinematic Dissolves: Elegant cross-dissolve transitions between scenes
  • Letterboxing: Automatic 2.39:1 widescreen crop for film look
  • Color Grading: Warm tone shift for emotional resonance
  • Energy Pacing: Quiet ceremony moments get slow cuts, reception dance gets faster pacing
  • Audio Ducking: Speeches and vows are preserved with automatic music ducking
A side-by-side comparison showing raw wedding footage enhanced by the cinematic Prestige visual effect preset

The Workflow

1

Import All Footage

Load ceremony, reception, prep, and dance footage. Onset Engine indexes every scene with AI vision analysis.

2

Choose Your Song

Select the couple's first dance song or a licensed track. Onset Engine maps beats and energy for pacing.

3

Select Prestige

The preset applies dissolves, letterboxing, color grading, and pacing automatically.

4

Deliver or Refine

Export the finished reel or open the OTIO timeline in your NLE for final client-specific tweaks.

Privacy for Private Moments

Wedding footage is deeply personal. Unlike cloud editors, Onset Engine processes everything locally. The couple's most intimate moments never touch a server. For studios handling multiple clients, that's not just a feature — it's a professional obligation.

The privacy and security of Onset Engine's 100% local, offline video processing architecture

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