Wedding Videos

Wedding videos are unique part of your wedding day, how many times have you appeared in a professional film production? for most of us the answer is never. Your wedding video should capture the excitement and detail of the day to produce a high quality video production.

You will have many questions and we are hopefully going to cover a few.

Are you free for our wedding?

Sounds simple but this is the first question you need to find out! We can only cover 3 weddings on one day.

t. 01252 522012 or videos@video-wedding.org.uk

How much is a wedding video?

We offer 3 standard wedding video packages, our we monitor carefully the prices of companies offering a similar service and our prices our normally at least 25% cheaper! For our prices click the link wedding video prices

How long have you been producing wedding videos?

It is important to ask specifically "how long have you been making wedding videos " Videoing a wedding is a very different assignement than filming a play or commercial, it takes experience to know and to predict the next event in a wedding, there is usually know script to follow so the video person has to be positioned in advance of the vent if possible. Our wedding videographers have an average of 7 years experience. As a company we have producing wedding videos for 20 years

What video equipment do you use?

We use the latest sony and panasonic 3 chip digital video cameras, the are produce superb quality and are still very portable, essential to capture those spontaneous moments. We still many videographers using very old equipment on formats that are no superceded, the video camera has to be fairly new as the technology has moved on fast! Lighting is usually not required as our video cameras have excellent low light recording.

Are the wedding videos edited?

As your wedding video is filmed digitally we can edit using the latest computer software to produce results that can compare with TV quality and effects to match, we can add you favourite music and photos or old video footage of your younger days! Your initial footage will be normally 2 -4 hours depending on the package you order, after editing we would expect your film to be between 1 and 3 hours long

Can you produce a DVD wedding videos?

After your video has been edited it can be recorded on virtual any format you require, DVD, digital tape, VHS ect, If you need to send a copy abroad no problem, Let us know the format and we will provide it. For further info dvd wedding videos

Will the video person get in the way?

Many videographers feel they should almost be in the photographs! we pride ourselves in our unobtrusive style, reportage video is perhaps the best description

Are you familiar with our wedding location?

We know most locations in the area, if it is new location to us we will visit before to ensure we video from the best spots.

Can we see a sample videos?

We have huge library of previous work and if you live in the areas we cover we can either invite to our studio or vist your home where we can show you samples and discuss your requirements further.

The abbreviations you always wanted to know!

Many wedding videographers will baffle you with these, here is a few to keep you informed

Analogue Video - video technology, still widely used, where the image is represented by a voltage waveform, and the contained voltage levels and frequencies are an encoded "analogue" of the image.

Audio Dub - Music or dialog not originally part of the visuals, but related, like the music over the photos.

Audio Mix - When two or more audio elements are combined in correct proportion whilst editing; for example, music over interviews.

Broadcast-quality - This has a specific meaning if producing material to a TV station.

Camcorder - video camera and recorder in single unit

Computer Titles - generated by a computer using specialized software.

Copyright Law - Legal vehicle covering protection of intellectual property. Although you hire a videographer or photographer to cover your wedding, the copyright remains with the producer.

Digital Videos & DV Equipment using formats based on DV is now becoming available to wedding videographers. It should be your requirement. DV digital video is the highest-quality of video reproduction available to the consumer, surpassing DVD.

DVD - digital versatile disk - a coming high-capacity successor to the CD-ROM, with the ability to hold about 2 hours of digital video and using the MPEG-2 standard. DVD-R Video is now an affordable and effective means of high-quality archival release for wedding productions. it also offers interactivity not possible with tape.

DVD-R - DVD Recordable - the specific type of DVD economically viable for low volume duplication, as with wedding videos. Some DVD players will not play DVD-R.

Editing - shortening of the original recording to remove flaws. This can be done by sequencing the recording and playback of editing VCRs or by used of computer software and digitized video in a nonlinear editing system. Most wedding videos now use the latter.

Hi8 - this has been replaced by digital systems. Do not use a wedding videographer using this format!

MPEG - Motion Picture Experts Group, which developed the hardware and software schemes for compressing video for transmission over the Internet or distribution for personal computer reproduction.

MPEG-1 - Used in CD-ROMs, personal computer video files, Internet downloads, and Video CDs. Quality varies widely based on degree of compression. For some, this is a practical way of storing and distributing wedding video segments.

MPEG-2 - High-quality variant of MPEG now used by DVD-Videos.

MPEG-3 - also know as MP3; it is a means of distributing digital music over the Internet and replaying it with small portable devices.

Non-Linear Editing (NLE) - bears the same relationship to tape-based editing as word processing software with computers due to paper and typewriters. It allows tremendous flexibility, and has been adopted most by wedding videographers.

NTSC - National Television Standards committee, which devised the scheme for colour television technology in the United States. NTSC is used in the US, Canada, Mexico, Japan, The Philippines, and many countries in South America. If you plan to send your wedding video to other than these countries, you will need this conversion.

On-camera Light - small battery-powered light mounted on top of camera. Potentially annoying !

PAL - Phase Alternation Line, the standard for colour television in the United Kingdom, most of Europe, and many former British territories; probably the most widely used standard.

Photo Intro or Montage - an opening sequence of growing up or photos, set to a music background

SECAM - the French-developed colour television standard, translating to "sequential colour with memory". It is used in Russia, France, and some others.

Slow motion - an effect to enhance the mood of some wedding scenes, particularly in for example a confetti scene or an ending montage.

Special Effect Transitions - a change between scenes other than a straight cut, such as a dissolve, geometric wipe, or digital effect move; achieves a more gradual change, but is often overused.

Streaming Videos - for Internet transmission of video on demand, where playback can begin well before the entire video is transmitted. Segments are buffered on the client computer. This is rapidly gaining popularity in wedding applications.

SuperVHS (SVHS) - a higher-resolution variant of consumer VHS.

Three-Chip Camera - a professional camera having separate image sensors and a beam-splitting prism to process the three primarily colours. Three-chip cameras give sharper images with more accurate colour and tolerate the high contrasts of white gowns and formal attire. Many use one-chip cameras because they are lighter and cheaper. Most wedding videos are produced using this system