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While couples do know videography services are readily available, there are many questions about what options or components are available for such videography services and which medium should the couples be getting. This article focuses on providing the information that will be useful for couples who intend to engage for a wedding videography package.

What does a Wedding Videography Package offer?

The main components that are common in wedding videography packages are:

1. The main video content
   • This would refer to the core, meaning the video shooting of the day(s) events. The length of the video would normally be around 2 hours for a traditional wedding. It comes with mild video editing with some effects and incorporation of music in parts of the video.
2. Wedding highlight
   • A wedding highlight is a short video normally lasting about 5 minutes. The video is developed from extracts of the wedding day(s) events. Videographers would work on more elaborate effects to make it look like an MTV. A wedding highlight is normally used as an opening to the main video. Most companies would also offer an express editing service to do up a wedding highlight on the wedding day itself for the couple to screen it during their wedding dinner at night.
3. Photo presentation (slide-show video)
   • Photo presentation would normally form the front part of the wedding highlight but it can also be offered as a separate presentation service. It is usually used to showcase the couple's photographs from baby to wedding shoots.

Which medium would Wedding Videography include?

Take note of the difference between Recording Medium and Delivery Medium. A recording medium is the medium used by the camera whereas a delivery medium is the medium which the couple will be getting. The table below indicates the common types of camera and their media used for wedding videography.

As couples normally do not have the player to view certain media such as DVCPro tape or Betacam tape, the resulting video is transferred into a normal VHS tape. Conversion can also done to produce VCDs. VHS tapes and VCDs are the most common delivery media. Some companies may offer conversion to DVD as another form of delivery medium. A comparison between the qualities of the common delivery media can be found below:

 

Media (Delivery Medium)	Quality	Fungus Growth
DVD	Superior*	Resistant
VHS	Good	Non-resistant
VCD	Average#	Resistant

* affected by the source. Eg. Conversion from DVCPro tape to DVD will produce true digital quality whereas a conversion from VHS tape to DVD will only retain the VHS quality

# VCD pictures are inferior to VHS. Hence, it is not much affected by the recording medium.

What contributes to the differences in costings?

The followings are the main factors affecting the cost of a wedding videogaphy package:

1. The type of camera used
2. The time range of the video shooting session
3. The delivery medium
4. The components of the package (whether it includes highlights and photo presentation or even projector)
5. The skills and profile of the company

Hopefully, this article would provide readers with a better understanding on videography for wedding. Should you have further doubts, you may email your questions to info@envistar.com.

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