Common Wedding Video Mistakes: Expert Tips To Capture Everything Perfectly

Planning your wedding often becomes tedious and overwhelming but the wedding day will end up coming and going in a mere 24 hours. This fleeting period is why it’s vitally important for grooms and brides-to-be to give careful attention to making sure every moment is captured perfectly. Just like wedding photography, the videography is going to make or break how you recall these priceless memories years down the road.

Dan Creviston of George Street Photo and Video (www.georgestreetpv.com) in Chicago, IL, has guided countless couples as they feel their way through the process of ensuring their weddings are captured perfectly, professionally and at a fair price. He says, “With technology changing constantly and countless options to explore, it’s crucial that they know what questions to ask in order to make informed decisions, avoid the pitfalls and perfect their videography.”

So, without further adieu, To Suit Your Fancy shares the top 5 mistakes to avoid when deciding on videography package:

1. Failure to Use Multiple Cameras - More videographers need to use dual cameras. By doing so, the videographer will capture multiple perspectives simultaneously and better tell the story. For example, they can capture both the bride walking down the aisle AND the groom’s reaction at the same time. Inside Tip: Make sure your videographer’s cameras are ALL HD!

2. Failure to Go High Definition – By going HD, couples ensure their videos are the best quality and this formate avoids limited clarity and pixilation. Inside Tip: There should be no extra charge for HD, so avoid companies that do.

3. Failure to Understand High Definition Technology: For the highest quality and clarity, you must have HD footage prior to uploading into an HD format. For example – you must shoot in HD, then burn onto a blu-ray disc. Inside Tip: Some videographers shoot in standard definition and burn onto a blu-ray disc (or shoot in HD and burn to DVD!) – this is not truly HD! Make sure to know the difference so you aren’t tricked.

4. Not Requesting Multiple DVD Formats – It’s only a matter of time until you have a blu-ray player, so get your wedding video on an HD blu-ray disc as well as a standard definition DVD. This is important to enable your video to maintain top quality and clarity for the future! Inside

5. Not Chatting With Your Videographer A Week In Advance – It’s important to discuss all details with your videographer before the wedding day, so check in one week prior so that instructions are fresh. Discuss all your expectations and if you have specific requests, express them clearly. This is especially important for locations as churches, synagogues, mosques and chapels may have specific areas that cannot be filmed. You don’t want any unwelcome surprises!

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