Friday 19 February 2010

FREE Videos of your Event or Party Photographs

We were shocked when a photographer who had taken some shots of a friends daughter wanted £800 to put the photos into a slideshow ! So we worked out how to do it ourselves and it's now a very popular part of what we do. We create a video on our website of the images set to music with the special effects matched to the beat. It takes time so we had to work out what to charge.

We quickly realised we could offer this as a FREE service as a thank you to anyone who books us to cover an event! At the end of an event or party we have all the images we have editted, airbrushed and green screened stored on the system. We set these to music that is relevant to the party or event we photographed. The client can request special songs. We of course pay the proper licencing fees where necessary.

The finished video goes up on our site in a special private area where only those with a password can see it, and the customer can then send the link and password to all the friends and guests. This is all done FREE of charge!

We then realised that if we put the high resolution photographs into the same software we could produce a full resolution video suitable for viewing on a HD television and by burning this onto a DVD we can make a permanent memento of the evening. This takes a lot longer and we do have to charge for this, but we keep the costs down by doing it in-house. We charge £100 to do the authoring and editting, then just £10 per DVD.

We will post some examples shortly

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