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YOUR WEDDING VIDEOS BY T. THOMPSON Creative Control Weddings - "HD wedding video vs HDV wedding video"
how important is a professionally-produced wedding video? Lets say your Mother told you they had in one hand a book of professional photos of the day your grandparents were married, and in their other hand a professionally-produced video of that same day, in full color, with stereo sound, but that you could only choose one to view and keep as a family heirloom. Which would you choose? Today, thanks to new developments in digital technology and the advanced skills of Creative Controls team headed by T.Thompson professional videographers, We are not a team of Guys that can work a camera…We are much more, We are a creative production company that sees the true beauty of your wedding day.
Most wedding videos all look the same 1.the bride gets ready.Ect. Ect..you already know what will happen next. These type of videos will soon be out dated Brides are wanting more, they want to enjoy there wedding video with friends in that case the wedding video must have a interesting story!! And this is what makes us different we make wedding movies not video slide shows that no wants to watch but you says, T Thompson of Creative control weddings. We have been Endorsed by MGM TELEVISION STUDIOS PRESIDENT..
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You have only one chance to be sure your wedding day is professionally captured....just one chance to be sure all of the emotions, the love and laughter are preserved for you to share again and again. We make are wedding videos timeless, I am in love with what I do.. Its Beautiful reality TV! T.Thompson
Our mission is to create individual, eye catching images that define a moment or a feeling. We specialize in Wedding photography and creative wedding videos.
Creative Control ( “T.Thompson”) videography saves your wedding days most precious and beautiful moments--as they actually happened. And what is more important than to hold the precious sights and sounds from the most important day of your life--your wedding day! Because the event goes by so quickly, capturing all of the activities, your ceremony and reception, on video will mean your wedding will be preserved for you and your family now, and most importantly...for all the generations ahead.” Says T.Thompson” of creative control San diego weddings.
Whoever said "You stop learning when you die” may have worked in the video production business……
HD wedding video vs HDV wedding video
There are a lot of interesting comparisons among various HD formats. -- as well as the degree of how much better any one tape format or workflow is over another -- I’ll do my try to throw out some general info without "swaying" it too much with my opinion...You may never need to know any of this video stuff: FOR SURE: but at least you can rest assured we creative control weddings and T.Thompson ‘me” knows this and she will keep learning as technology keeps getting better and better…
Don’t you hate it when you save up and buy something and 2 weeks later the new bigger and better version comes out…OUCH!!!!
Well that happens every where. My Wedding videos need to stand the test of time not only for you but also for the future of creative control weddings as a whole. If I could just go be creative all day long I would because that’s what makes me tick. But you would see me with vhs tapes and that wouldn’t really work for you today. So I resign my self to keeping up with technology. So the bigger better version of your wedding video doesn’t happen….
HD video vs HDV video. There are a lot of interesting comparisons among various HD formats. and the winner in each HD "category" -- as well as the degree of how much better any one tape format or workflow is over another -- I’ll do my best to throw out some general info without "coloring" it too much with my opinion ...You may never need to know any of this video stuff: FOR SURE: but at least you can rest assured we creative control weddings and T.Thompson knows this and she will keep learning as technology keeps getting better and better…
I can tell you very fast.. “ in English” HD vs. HDV
HDV is beautiful but is not good for editing it is to compress, so you can do very little with it, as far as beautiful editing goes believe it or not. GOOD old Video is better for editing…HD on the other hand… is beautiful and great for editing, most wedding video production don’t use it. its very costly and very time consuming…. Creative control weddings “me” T. has the technology and I use it.( I think I just sounded like the bionic women..)If you look at my wedding video clips you will see editing and slow motion that is very clear and clean. This will be very much appreciated down the road. I want all your wedding memories to last the test of time!!! Isn’t this why you are investing in a wedding video for memory sake? .. To preserve the moment..Thats what I do the key word is preserve.. And I
love it.
OVERALL HD FORMATS:
"HD" is a general term and it covers all the Hi Def formats including HDV really. But most people, at least most working professionals in film or broadcast, when they are referring to HD are talking about material acquired on HD Vision, HDcam, DVCProHD, Viper, or HDcam SR (or acquired on film and converted to one of those formats) using a picture size of 1920x1080 or 1280x720 and color sampling of at least 4:2:2 (HDcam is 3:1:1, but that's the exception).
COMPETING HDV FORMATS:
HDV refers to a tape format that was really designed to be the replacement for DV, but for once the industry replaced a format with another format that uses the same tapes...hurray! On a DV videocassette, you can get two types of HDV footage: 1440x1080 frame size (as opposed to HD formats with 1920x1080), which has the same data rate as DV (25 megabits per second) but uses MPEG compression to create 15 frame (NTSC successor); or another popular HDV format uses 12 frame (PAL successor) groups of pictures or "GOPs." The basic compromise here is image quality as the image compression is very aggressive, a necessity to fit that much picture on a DV cassette. JVC's HDV uses a 1280x720 image size which reduces the data rate to 19 megabits per second and reduces the GOP to 6 frames. Progressive scan on a JVC camera also makes a difference in an increase in perceived sharpness…but on the flip side progressive scan can increase motion artifacts from camera or subject motion, particularly horizontal.
Since HDV is Transport Stream MPEG (and not studio profile) its color sampling specification is 4:2:0, as a DVD or satellite signal would have. This is effectively equal to the color under sampling that DV does with the 4 pixel blocks shaped as 2x2 in 4:2:0, vs 4x1 pixel blocks in DV’s 4:1:1.
Both types of HDV have an 8 bit color depth, which indicates 256 possible values for each color channel.
DISSECTING SOME HD / HDV FORMAT SPECS:
With the other HD formats mentioned, compressed each frame is handled individually instead of as a group. This increases quality, but there are some trade-offs in this group as well.
HD cam actually under samples color to 3:1:1 (remember plain old DV is 4:1:1...3:1:1 is a bit better) and even though it records 1920x1080 images, it's really only laying 1440x1080 to tape to make the data fit.
DVCProHD uses 4:2:2 color sampling which is certainly better than 3:1:1, but Panasonic also needs to record a reduced res image to cram all the data on tape. The 1280x720 that the Varicam DVCProHD camera does so well is actually only 960x720 on tape.
HDcam and DVCProHD are both 8 bit color depth formats.
In general, because of the nature of HDV, all the cameras that are currently available do not have interchangeable lenses and are just generally less expensive than the more "production-oriented" HD tape formats (for lack of a better term). The configuration of the camera can have as much or more to do with image quality than the compression and, generally, HDV cameras are configured to be inexpensive to fit their intended market.
HD / HDV POST PRODUCTION:
The issue gets more confusing when post production is introduced as you can take your HDV footage and edit it "native" as MPEG or you can convert it into more conventional HD file-types and edit it with other types of HD content -- or you can easily output it to other HD formats. Since HDV primarily uses FireWire as its main "pipeline" and other types of HD use HD-SDI, converting the footage can be an advantage in those situations. Some users would prefer to edit their HDV footage as HDV -- it's been an on-going discussion as to the advantages and disadvantages of each approach.
PROS & CONS OF "NATIVE" MPEG EDITING:
CON: MPEG as a codec wasn't really designed to be edited as the long "GOPs" require re-compression if they are cut somewhere within the group (which happens more often than not, of course -- particularly with the 12 and 15 frame HDV).
PRO: Editing native assures that changing to some other format doesn't introduce any conversion artifacts into the pictures.
CON: MPEG takes more processor power to compress than to decompress, as it was designed as a distribution format. CoDecs (COmpressor/DECompressors) designed for editing tend to be "symmetrical" -- or have a much more "even" processor load between compression and decompression. HDV native editing tends to be slower at previewing effects and transitions for this reason.
PRO: High quality "symmetrical" editing codecs tend to create larger files than the HDV MPEG files.
CON: Most of the available "intermediate" codecs (which you would use to convert HDV to for editing if you didn't use MPEG) tend to be of much higher quality over repeated generations of compression. This does not mean that your footage will improve so much as it has the potential to degrade far less through the editing/post production process. Some higher-
end HD editing systems have 10 bit color codecs that increases the color depth to 1,024 possible values per channel. For extensive color correction or effects work, this 4X deeper palette can hold quite an advantage.
Also because of the processor loading, it can take a bigger system to edit MPEG with the same effectiveness as an intermediate codec, even though the intermediate files will almost certainly be larger.
PRO: With intermediate codec systems, output to FireWire for mastering back to the HDV camera or deck often entails additional steps.
CON: Many intermediate systems can output to virtually any HD tape format if you plan on mastering to something other than HDV.
There are also "this application vs that one" .ect ect ect
This is just a scratch at the surface of the basic qualities of some HD and HDV formats…development won’t stop anytime soon and new technology will continue to increase in quality and cost-effectiveness, and the lines will almost certainly become even more blurry.
All said and done I really enjoy Weddings the entire process, the preparation getting to know every couple getting married ( I love that) the filming , the editing making the story come to life in a cinematic creative way, The response I get WOW,I get to be a part of a monumental day in 2 peoples life’s my work feels like a party, who doesn’t like a party!!! T.