Many events take place in our lives and we seem to care about them more and more than we used to some ten years ago. That is why companies that offer videography services thrive and struggle to keep up with the latest trends in terms of technology and customers’ requirements. Event videography services include filming, making videos and editing the raw filming, transferring it on a CD or DVD for the customer to keep or project everything on one or several screens perhaps at the time when the event is unfolding. Depending on the case or situation, these services provided by professionals are meant to remind the customer of the key moment of the event that needs filming.
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Videography services may be offered at quite a wide range of events. They may be personal ones in which you invite family members and friends like weddings, baptisms, birthdays and so on. They may be banquets within companies or firms where people who are in charge of the entire events would like to keep a record of all the moments of this kind. Here we may include farewell parties, new assignments for various offices, important meetings, parties that may mark various types of closed deals and the list may continue.
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Other situations where videography services are required by customers could be seminars or training events where two or more camera shots are possible offering playbacks for everyone to be able to closely analyze and gather information that they will later need. Usually these events are meant for the personnel of the company that requires the service, and videography services may also include the duplication of the recording for several members of the company staff.
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Regardless of the type of events you want to capture for later or instant view, each company that offers videography services allows the customers to choose from the various packages they have. Of course, packages are chosen based on the needs to be met and also on the price displayed. It is important for big and important events that you choose the appropriate package matching to high quality standards necessary for corporate reunions. In order to choose the suitable package, it is best that you check the offer closely and view samples of previous work carried out by the videography services provider to get an idea of the capabilities and skills the provider has.

Avid, makers of a wide range of digital video/audio software and hardware have a couple of new product updates coming your way mid-September. The first to note is an updated version of their consumer-friendly family of products know as Pinnacle Studio.

The new Pinnacle Studio meets the needs of a wide range of consumers, from novices to video enthusiasts and semi-professionals. The family of products includes Pinnacle Studio HD, Pinnacle Studio Ultimate and Pinnacle Studio Ultimate Collection, which offer a complete HDV & AVCHD workflow and allows consumers to export movies to Flash, QuickTime, PS3, Nintendo Wii, Xbox, Apple iPod and more. Pinnacle Studio Ultimate and Pinnacle Ultimate Collection also offer Blu-ray authoring with motion menus.

Other new features include:

• A stop-motion capture for animated and fast-motion effects.

• New content and enhancements for Pinnacle Montage.

• Dynamic Motion Titler tool that includes a number of new templates.

• A new stabilizer effect – leveraging the same technology used in Avid’s professional editing products to fix shaky camera shots.

Also, those who purchase Pinnacle Studio Ultimate Collection will receive the most complete solution, including a green sheet for Chroma key effects and six highly acclaimed professional plug-ins from Red Giant:

• Shine ultra-fast light ray effects

• ToonIt turns video into cartoon style animation

• Knoll Light factory creates lens flares, sunsets & more

• Magic Bullet Looks generates advanced video styles

• 3D stroke creates glowing lines, swirling shapes, and 3D camera effects

• Particular smoke, explosion, and abstract effects

Did I get that right? You get a green screen? COOL!

The price of Pinnacle Studio HD, Pinnacle Studio Ultimate and Pinnacle Studio Ultimate Collection remains the same as previous version: US$49.99, $99.99 and $129.99, respectively. However there will be upgrade price breaks of $30 for Studio Ultimate and $40 for Studio Ultimate Collection made available to existing customers.

Pinnacle Studio is compatible with Windows Vista SP2 (Both 32-bit & 64-bit), Windows XP SP3 & Windows 7.

Also coming soon are three new Pro-Tools bundles that aim to give experienced consumers and first-time hobbyists alike, affordable access to the classic digital editing toolset for audio–ProTools. The bundles which are named Pro Tools Vocal Studio, Pro Tools Recording Studio and Pro Tools KeyStudio™, have both software and hardware components. The distinct software portions are known as Pro Tools M-Powered™ Essential software, which is a specific version of ProTools that works natively with M-Audio hardware (which incidentally Avid owns). The M-Audio hardware within these packages sounds compelling too: a studio quality USB mic, FastTrack USB interface and an M-Audio  KeyStudio USB keyboard, respectively.

Here are some more detailed descriptions from Avid:

Pro Tools Vocal Studio turns the computer into a complete vocal recording studio. This bundle includes the Producer USB microphone, a studio-quality mic that lets people capture vocals, as well as record acoustically played instruments. The Producer USB mic lets people record with stunning clarity, whether they’re singing a future hit song or narrating a family biography. And with Pro Tools M-Powered Essential, it’s easy to remix vocals to produce professional-quality soundtracks and podcasts with ease.

Pro Tools Recording Studio enables people to craft professional-sounding songs and remixes — no experience needed. With the included Fast Track® USB audio interface plugged right into the computer, music enthusiasts can capture pristine digital sound for any recording project, whether from a guitar or a standard microphone. With Pro Tools M-Powered Essential software, consumers can dub, mix, remix, edit, blend, restore, hone and more to create audio projects that will sound like they came from a pro — even if someone’s never recorded a note before.

Pro Tools KeyStudio features the M-Audio KeyStudio USB keyboard, a simple, yet high-quality 49-note velocity-sensitive keyboard that also functions as a MIDI interface. With Pro Tools KeyStudio, users can record a single keyboard track or create a complete orchestral recording using the KeyStudio to input any of the 60+ virtual instruments that come loaded with Pro Tools M-Powered Essential.

Each Pro Tools Essential bundle is, as of this writing,  available at an MSRP of $129 and works on mac or windows.

All of this is good news for the people out there looking for reasonably priced entry products of this nature. It makes sense for both the Pinnacle and ProTools offerings to be released together as they are meant to work together to help people craft “slicker-than-you-thought-I-could-do” home movies and more. I wonder how seamlessly they interact?

It’s also a good strategy on Avid’s part to offer these less expensive products to compete with FinalCutPro, Premiere, GarageBand and the many other pro-sumer type software packages out there these days. I seem to always remember Avid as an expensive, “for-professionals-only” platform back in the day when I was doing all my FCP work in agency-life, but clearly their acquisition path and continued development of some consumer-friendly apps shows that they are trying to cover more than one side of the quickly evolving world of digital media.

Many events take place in our lives and we seem to care about them more and more than we used to some ten years ago. This would explain why companies that offer videography services thrive and struggle to keep up with the latest trends that correspond to technological progress and clients’ standards. Event videography services include not just the filming or the making of the videos, but the editing and the transfer of the data on digital storage devices according to the project specificity. From case to case, these services generated by professionals are meant to remind the customer of the key moment of the event that needs filming.

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Videography services may be offered at quite a wide range of events. They may be personal ones in which you invite family members and friends like weddings, baptisms, birthdays and so on. Corporate events are also suitable to use videography services for. Here we may include farewell parties, new assignments for various offices, important meetings, parties that may mark various types of closed deals and the list may continue.

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To mention some further applications of videography sevices we ought to say something about training and seminar events where two or more camera shots are possible offering playbacks for everyone to be able to closely analyze and gather information that they will later need. Only the company staff and partners attend such events, and videography services will sometimes involve record duplications for the participants.

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No matter the type of events you want to capture for later or instant view, each company that offers videography services enables customers to choose from the different in the offers. Of course, the real needs and the price influence the service choice. It is important for big and important events that you choose the appropriate package matching to high quality standards necessary for corporate reunions. In order to choose the suitable package, make sure to examine the offer closely and have a look at samples of previous work in order to make an opinion of the professional standards of the service provider.