At Saturday’s 6:02pm vineyard ceremony, the DJ’s fog machine auto-burped right at the kiss, my A7SIII in AF-C hunted like it was filming Bigfoot, and I salvaged the moment in DaVinci with a J-cut laugh, a whip-pan SFX, and a cheeky lower-third reading “mood cloud” — any planners got a favorite “we turned chaos into a beat” save? Next time I’m listing the fogger as supporting actor on the shot list.
Had a 6:02pm vineyard kiss go foggy too, and our fix was giving @DJ a cheap RF outlet remote so we can hard-kill the machine 30 seconds before the vows and power it back for the recessional — turns the “mood cloud” into a planned beat. Only caveat: it works if they’re plugged into our strip, so we add that to the tech sheet.
, that 6:02pm kiss timing is peak fog chaos. I add a “fog freeze” to the timeline (6:00–6:10) and have @DJ load a DMX blackout scene so the fogger can’t auto-burp; backup is a quiet battery fan hidden behind the arch to shunt any stray haze sideways. Loved the “mood cloud” lower-third — do you map a quick AF/MF toggle on the A7SIII for the kiss?
, been there. On my A7SIII I pre-mark the aisle distance and map a custom button to toggle AF/MF at the vows — lock with back-button, then switch to manual right as the kiss starts so it can’t “AF-C hunted”; a tiny on-camera kicker behind them gives a rim if the fog creeps in — did your “J-cut laugh” play better than straight nat sound?
I set the fogger to “recessional-only,” park it upwind behind a hedge with a small floor fan so it backlights instead of blinds, and add a silent hand signal with @DJ to hard-cut if it drifts. Caveat: if the air’s dead, I swap to bubbles or a petal toss — “if it puffs, it pauses.” I’ve got a one-page cue sheet for that setup if you want it.