At Tasana Studios we offer 2 wedding packages.
- Gold Wedding Package: The Gold Package is a format that was devolved here at Tasana Studios in 2007. You the customer will provide 5 photos of the bride and 5 photos of the groom. The photos must be tasteful and start from early childhood and progress to a few years before you meet each other. These photos will be used in the introduction of the wedding video as part of the “love story”. Then an appointment will be made for the bride to do a camera interview in the Greenscreen studio in which questions will be asked about her meeting the groom, dating, and life. The groom will likewise be interviewed. The two will not see each other’s interview. The interviews will be edited and switch back and forth, each will tell their story of love as part of the love story. This segment has always been a favorite of the bride and groom and ones who get to watch it. Some have been really funny. This segment is followed by the rehearsal, an on location video capture of the photographer getting wedding photos (providing the photographer allows), then the wedding and lastly the reception.
What’s in the Package?:
1 standard DVD with a DVD case and case artwork,
1 USB Thumb Drive with the wedding in 1080 mp4 format so it can be played on any device or TV and shared with friends and family. - This package is $900.00 flat; additional DVD’s are $25.00 each
- Silver Wedding Package: The Sliver package is the wedding and the reception. It does NOT include the rehearsal, childhood photos or the pre-wedding interviews. You will get 1 USB Thumb drive with the final video in 1080 mp4 format. No DVD will be provided or produced.
This package is $600.00 flat.
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*All above services are provided subject to an in person interview with the perspective client. Not all interviews will lead to Tasana Studios taking on the event or job or service. All given factors will be taken into consideration for each interview. Each interview will be considered on its own and the time available for Tasana Studios to take on the project. If your project, event, or job is not taken on by Tasana Studios you may or may not be provided with an exact reason and Tasana Studios is not under obligation to take on every event, job or service and is also not under obligation to provide an exact reason. In most cases it will be due to the technically of the job and time involved. We are limited on how much time can be devoted to each task and given that we must let some task pass us by.
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Currently 31% of households in the United States have a 4K TV. That means 69% of households do not. A 1080 format TV will not UPSCALE to 4K but will drop the format. The current average price of a 4K TV is $650.00. The facts combined means that most people currently do not have a 4K TV.
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The 4K Con
Many wedding video companies are now offering 4K video on their sites. Does Tasana Studios?
Short answer is no. Why?
I think it’s time for the truth on this to be made know to the consumer. 4K video is a marketing gimmick, word and eye candy to draw in customers. It reminds me of the traveling medicine man who promised great cures from a bottle of sugar water. I am not saying an event can’t be recorded in 4K and the customer may even be given a truly 4K video. But let’s consider some facts about 4K.
So your videographer does have a camera that records in 4K 2160, awesome, so he takes it to his studio to process for you, removing his video errors and providing you the customer with a seamless video of your wedding. But if the videographer does not have professional (only high quality professional software has the proper codex) video software he will not be able to save your video in 4K, so he saves it in mp4 1080 or 720, he did record it in 4K but now it has been compressed to non-4K format. But suppose he does have the proper professional video software, he will still need a powerful enough computer to render it. When a video file is created it must be “rendered” to a watchable format. To render 4K video will require a very powerful computer, usually costing no less than $2,000.00. Few if any computers bought at major outlets can render video and much less 4K. So if you learn your videographer is using an off the shelf computer from Wal-Mart you are not going to get a 4K video. Lastly you the customer must have a 4K TV to watch a 4K video.
What it comes down to is this, 4K is a technology that is being faded out and although many cameras can record in it, the industry is current in flux and since new formats are currently being introduced it is likely that 4K will be halted and skipped. 4K is a marketing tool.
At Tasana Studios we use all Canon cameras, none have 4K technology, and one is the latest model. Canon does make 4K cameras; however unlike some camera companies Canon realizes the technology is changing so fast that in many cameras it is best to skip 4K. Canon does record in a format that NO other company is using, 24FPS Cinematic Mode, this is the exact same format used to produce Hollywood movies and this is unique to Canon. This format offers a rich unique look to videos and at Tasana Studios we can record and post-produce this format.
Short answer is no. Why?
I think it’s time for the truth on this to be made know to the consumer. 4K video is a marketing gimmick, word and eye candy to draw in customers. It reminds me of the traveling medicine man who promised great cures from a bottle of sugar water. I am not saying an event can’t be recorded in 4K and the customer may even be given a truly 4K video. But let’s consider some facts about 4K.
- The customer must have a 4K compatible TV to watch 4K
- You can’t produce a 4K DVD. So if provided with a DVD and told it’s 4K it is not
- The producers software must be able to save in 4K format
- The videographer must have a camera that records in 4K
So your videographer does have a camera that records in 4K 2160, awesome, so he takes it to his studio to process for you, removing his video errors and providing you the customer with a seamless video of your wedding. But if the videographer does not have professional (only high quality professional software has the proper codex) video software he will not be able to save your video in 4K, so he saves it in mp4 1080 or 720, he did record it in 4K but now it has been compressed to non-4K format. But suppose he does have the proper professional video software, he will still need a powerful enough computer to render it. When a video file is created it must be “rendered” to a watchable format. To render 4K video will require a very powerful computer, usually costing no less than $2,000.00. Few if any computers bought at major outlets can render video and much less 4K. So if you learn your videographer is using an off the shelf computer from Wal-Mart you are not going to get a 4K video. Lastly you the customer must have a 4K TV to watch a 4K video.
What it comes down to is this, 4K is a technology that is being faded out and although many cameras can record in it, the industry is current in flux and since new formats are currently being introduced it is likely that 4K will be halted and skipped. 4K is a marketing tool.
At Tasana Studios we use all Canon cameras, none have 4K technology, and one is the latest model. Canon does make 4K cameras; however unlike some camera companies Canon realizes the technology is changing so fast that in many cameras it is best to skip 4K. Canon does record in a format that NO other company is using, 24FPS Cinematic Mode, this is the exact same format used to produce Hollywood movies and this is unique to Canon. This format offers a rich unique look to videos and at Tasana Studios we can record and post-produce this format.
Beware The Wrath of the 4K Con
"I told my wedding videographer what you say on your site about 4K and he told me that if the wedding is shot in 4K it will be better than 1080. Is that true?"
With the truth about 4K above some wedding videographer's will convince you it is still best to shoot in 4K and then compress it to 1080. This is absolutely untrue. When video is compressed there is data loss. So compressing 4K to 1080 will result in loss of video/audio data and odd artifacts may appear in the video or audio.
If the footage is shot in 1080 and then given to the customer in that format there is no data loss. It is also unlikely that you will be able to tell the difference between 4K and 1080.
The bottom line is, if your videographer charges you to shoot in 4K, you are paying extra for a feature that you will not see the benefit from.
With the truth about 4K above some wedding videographer's will convince you it is still best to shoot in 4K and then compress it to 1080. This is absolutely untrue. When video is compressed there is data loss. So compressing 4K to 1080 will result in loss of video/audio data and odd artifacts may appear in the video or audio.
If the footage is shot in 1080 and then given to the customer in that format there is no data loss. It is also unlikely that you will be able to tell the difference between 4K and 1080.
The bottom line is, if your videographer charges you to shoot in 4K, you are paying extra for a feature that you will not see the benefit from.