Archive for November, 2009

What are some good songs to put in a wedding video?

My videographer says that he needs more songs for our wedding video. Some ideas would be great. The name of the song and artist would be great if possible.
thanks :o )

"She’s My Everything" by Brad Pasley

We are playing this at our wedding too!


what equipment do I need for wedding videography business?

My wife has a wedding photography business and there is a high demand for video.What essentials do I need to get started, books and tutorials would be helpful?

Well, you’d be needing a video camera, a tripod for your camera, a computer, and a simple light kit. It would also be to your advantage if you know how to edit videos and possibly add some effects.


What online sports services show live video of football games?

I am willing to pay to sign up for a good service that shows college football games. My cable provider for some unknown reason has decided not to broadcast the local team anymore, and I also want access to some out of the area teams.

Any idea how good the picture quality is?

Also, I am looking for a service that doesn’t require any downloads, so I can watch from work.

Maybe you can try this: http://satellite-television-for-pc.info
You Can Get over 3000 STATIONS on your PC. You don’t need a satellite dish, receiver, or any cable or satellite service! All you need is an internet connection and a computer. Watch all these channels anywhere in the world. More than 1 million users are already enjoying the incredible variety.


What are the laws against public photography and video capture in South Korea?

I have bought a camera and heard that there are severe penalties for inappropriate use of a camera/camcorder in South Korea. What is considered inappropriate. I’m not talking just taking pictures of naked women here…not that I’m going to do that anyway.

I would like to be aware of this for obvoius reasons !

where did you hear that??
the are no severe penalties.
South Korea is just like the U.S. so take all the pictures and videos you want =))


How do I sell online video music lessons on my website?

I already know how to transfer video of lessons on to my computer and put it into .wmv format. And I already have a store with paypal set up, but I do not know how to bridge the two.

How do I sell online video music lessons on my website? Thanks!

Here is a simple example of a page you can do with paypal http://www.jlink.net/scybyte/page132.htm displaying your products you have for sale. After you receive payment you can either E-mail them the lesson, or the link to the file online. What I have is a secure online hard drive (Xdrive) that after I have received payment that I send them back a e-mail with the link to the file they bought that is open for a preset number of days.


What video sharing site to use to embed video on college newspaper site?

I work at a college newspaper and we are looking at integrating video news items into our pages for some articles. This video would be integrated on the actual article page. What we are looking for is a good trade off between video quality, good looking video player and easily embeddable. I am wondering what the best video sharing site would be to do this on, taking into consideration the extra audience we could pull to our site from the community that is already on the platform.

Please give me your opinion!

i think youtube is the best one, you can also try dailymotion, veoh and metacafe


How do I apply for a producing job at Harpo Productions?

Just curious if anyone has any information on how to go about applying for a producing, associate producing, intern or any other media related position for Harpo productions in Chicago, Illinois. Any information will be greatly appreciated, thank you!

You have to sleep with Stedman


What music video features a fallen angel being pulled by a bicycle to help her fly in a farm setting.?

It’s a fairly new song which I really like but I forgot the name of the band. Its a female singer, to the likes of Lenka or Colbie Calait and the song has a nice beat to it. I know she goes somthing like "oh oh oh oh away…" in a high pitched voice.
The music video is in a farm/meadow like setting with her having wings and tied to a bicycle so she can fly. Anyone know the song?
Thanks

A Fine Frenzy – "Blow Away"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7N5L1yCFUc
:)


How have you shared your wedding video with friends and family?

I have a cousin getting married soon, and our friends/family are located around the country, and some around the world. It costs over a thousand dollars to get the video, so there’s no way it will only be watched one time by 1 couple. For this price it needs to be a shared experience. It makes no sense to purchase 50 – 100 wedding DVDs, mail them, and then not know what people thought about the video once they watched it. How have you shared your wedding video?

I’ve come across this issue a few times, and signed up for an account for a friend as a present. And after I saw that it worked I suggested online sharing for quite a few friends and family. After using it, no I spoke to one regretted sharing wedding video online, and it saved a lot of both money and time.

3 places which do it and have a reputation for having done it well for at least a year are www.sharingourjoy.com, homemovie.com, and viddia.com; the thing I liked about the sharing joy website is that you can watch and post comments without having the movie stop. All 3 handle 2 hours of wedding video, you just click on section you want to watch and only see what you want. It’s too bad in the other 2 websites that your video stops and you go to a new page when you want to write something down to post a comment. Then you have to click the back button, check the video again, and restart it from where you guess you left off. I like the comment while you watch idea a lot, it gets people I have not thought about posting original things with fresh eyes. It also seems the other 2 websites are trying to push yesterdays DVD technology, and they’re like o by the way, we also do online video.

I’ve had the bad experience of going to a cousins place to watch her wedding video, and was subjected to 7! DVDs being brought out. Ya; I like her and all, but I just want to watch a few key scenes, find myself in the video, tell a few friends to check me out, and be done with it. There’s no way I’m watching her videographers cut of 14 hours of video. I also like that with online video I can watch and talk about it in the password protected guestbook section. Then it becomes just like a discussion forum, people build on each others comments, just like we’re doing here.

The price was $100 for each of the three, but the sharing joy website kept giving accounts away to every friend I referred. My friends just filled in anything at the promo code section, and it gave them free online video for a year. None of the 3 websites have advertising, so no youTube like unnecessary advertising. In all 3 sites the video was watched by friends and family who couldn’t attend, and the videographer dealt directly with the website, so you don’t have to do anything. It goes straight from videographer to online from their digital files. No matter what people say about sending things in the mail, it is just not that important once the day is over. I got thank you letters almost a year after some weddings I attended. And DVDs? Not likely someone will spend that amount of concentrated effort. Time just moves on.

I see answers here that say just burn and mail DVDs. Burning a DVD takes time, burning a few hundred takes that much more time. And then getting peoples addresses and mailing it so it gets there without scratches costs more. And this being 2008, who wants to watch a movie without sharing it with someone else? It’s like saying, here’s a cool toy, but since you all live in different places, you can’t play with anyone else. And after you’re done, give it to someone else so that they can play with it. At least with online video/guestbooks you can all watch and post at the same time so that you don’t forget how cool your lost uncle was, or what it felt like the last time you saw grandma. With a DVD if you get to feel that way you think you’ll tell someone later, and then it’s 5 years before you think about it and you’re alone again so you can’t share.

I like movies a lot and watching them, but I think the wedding videographers have a long way to go. Photographers figured it out long time ago: give people access to their own pictures. But for video they just don’t get it yet. They still expect you to pay them to burn DVDs. The video cost the couple a few hundred or a few thousand dollars; what’s the videographer going to make on copies, another $20? I would think they would spend time and concentrate on getting another 2 thousand dollar video. I get that the bride and groom want one to watch forever. But why should the couple pay to give everyone else an isolating experience? At least online you can watch only portions of video you like while you’re at work, and talk about it in the online guestbook all at once so you bounce your ideas about the video together and off each other. When the 15th online guest comes to watch, they add to your comments like the people before. By the time the 50th online guest comes along, there’s as much life in the guest commentary as much as there is in the video. Multiple eyes see so many different things, and with a really good videographers work you can see perspectives you just missed on that day.

I can see uploading to youTube, but they limit you to 10 minutes. And they have the worst videos next to your videos. Like I really want to see some new youTube artist right next to someones wedding video. And by the time youtube gets done with your video it looks like you have passed it through a paper shredder. After paying a few hundred or a few thousand bucks you at least want watchable video. Right now I can only think of 2 people of everyone I know who doesn’t have internet access. And they probably see their neighbor who does have net access to they can get their email. I like highlights reels, I agree with that poster that these 10 minute deals are really to the point and effective so you don’t bore people.

These new websites coming out are already changing the way people watch video. I do think DVDs are nice, but one friend I had evited 480 people to watch their wedding online. She told me only 450 people watched. But still. If she had done DVDs and paid 30 cents each, gotten a bunch of burners, spent the time to burn 480 DVDs, got all the addresses, put them all in mailers, posted them by mail, it would probably have cost her 2 or 3 dollars a piece. At that price it’s almost like hiring another videographer to take another whole video.

$0 – $100, password protected, post online comments, no ads, the whole video online, watch whatever you want, evite guests who weren’t at the wedding and online friends. I keep recommending those 3 websites. But sometimes people still want to stay safe with DVDs. Maybe it will be another generation before people see that they can be online. Maybe people just don’t realize they have other options, or have never seen examples of good online video without ads. Maybe they don’t know they can tell their videographer they want this, or have never seen it themselves to trust it. My vote is, tell your cousin to keep one DVD and make backups for herself, so she doesn’t lose it over the years and can transfer it to the next dead end bluray hd/dvd disk technology which comes around 5 years from now. But share her wedding video online in a password protected space. That’s what she needs. To give people access, and they can decide whether to watch or not. Make it easy on her and the people in her life. Tell her videographer what she wants, and for them to check out those sites and she won’t even have to deal with it herself, she just gets to share with whoever she wants. If she’s too busy with her wedding plans just gift it to her, you probably get a great deal because these websites are really early for online video and are rushing over themselves trying to get people to use them. You’ll end up looking like a hero, and get her a present no one else even thought of: A way to share wedding video online!

Good luck.


What are the chances of getting caught for using copyrighted songs in wedding videography?

I have seen copyrightd songs used in almost all the wedding videography companies. It seems that nothing is going to happen to these guys. I am sure that the producers and/or composers of the songs are aware of this, then, why is that nothing happens to those who use those songs?
Take a look at this:

http://soundblog.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!D380EA83E108537F!2497.entry

If the song was added by the producer of the video, it needs a license. Almost all modern music has licenses available at Harry Fox Agency, so i would think that reputable videographers take advantage of that.

If the song was a part of the ceremony that was captured by the videographer, then that is just documentation of an actual event. the production royalties should have been paid by the venue, but most composers exempt non profit performance such as weddings.

the rub comes in the recording of the music. that is where the RIAA comes in. if you take music off a CD that was purchased at a store, then that is not allowed. There are 2 ways around this, one is to use production music CDs. These are special recordings made by independent labels and licensed for the specific purpose of videos. The other, which i am not certain is legal, the videographer includes the store CD with the video, so the argument is the video music just came from the client owned CD.


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