Wedding Planning On A Budget

After all is said and done, what will remain from your wedding day?

In a word, Memories.

Beautiful, sweet, satisfying memories of your wonderful wedding day.

And hopefully you take measures to ensure that those precious memories will not be forgotten.

We strongly encourage you to include a professional videographer and photographer in your wedding planning. Or at least have someone you know who has all the required skill and experience who can be fully committed to your wedding’s videography or photography.

Your special wedding day deserves to be saved to film and video.

Careful handling of the film and master are key to preserving your memories. You know what film is but do you know what the “master” is? The “master” is the original video cassette or disc that comes directly from the camera and / or is the first video cassette or disc produced from editing. The master will often be a professional grade media such as DVCAM, MiniDV, or Digital8 tapes. In a word, the master is the original – not the copies.

We recommend that you obtain the master tape(s) and negatives from your videographer and photographer (you will have to arrange for this before agreeing to use their services).

Be sure to keep the negatives and master tape in a fire safe box in a humidity-controlled, room-temperature place (not the attic or basement). Also be sure to make back-up copies right away.

Reserve your master video tape for emergencies and use your back-up to make copies for viewing. The idea is that the less you handle the master, the less likely it will be damaged. Careful handling of the master is essential since it will have the most pure form of your video.

If you have a DVD copy made, be sure to burn a fresh copy of it every five years since DVD’s – contrary to popular belief – do age and deteriorate as do cassettes (the DVDs your wedding is captured on are different than the movie DVDs you buy). You should also make a back up copy of the DVD master so that you do not stand a chance of ruining your one and only DVD master.

Oh, and be sure that you remove that tab from the VHS copies so that no one accidentally records a soap opera or a football game over your special wedding day.

In short, take every precaution to capture and preserve your precious wedding day memories.

Finally, we would like to invite you to learn how to share your memories both at your wedding and after the wedding. We will even show you how to create a wedding slideshow video the easy and inexpensive way. You will also get a chance to view a short slideshow video of our own wedding photos: Your Wedding Memory Video

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