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Booking a company to film your wedding video can be quite an expensive outlay. You may have thought about ditching the idea altogether. You might be more willing to spend the money if you are certain that the end result will justify the cost. If you ensure that you include some of the following elements that are common in more exciting  wedding videos, you stand a chance of receiving something  that is aesthetic to you. Locate a professional company who will apply subtlety, taste and drama and you should be pleased.

One thing you should be aware of is that it is vital to have a professional film your wedding video. If you have an amateur version made by an partisan or handy man you may just not be euphoric with the end result. An enthusiast does not make videos for a livelihood so their gear may not be of quite as high a grade as it should be. Weddings can get intriguing weather in the eve, the light can go through several levels in the morning, in good order equipment is needed to compensate for this. Apart from technical considerations, it is more than just equipment that an amateur may not be aware of. I’m not saying that a ally or family member who works as a videographer for a living cannot do a good job. But it takes experience to make a wedding video look really good.

You need to make sure that the elegant and authoritative moments are captured in full. You will definetly want to be capturing all or large parts of the ceremony and different parts of the reception as well. Things that will look great to include are the cake cutting, the throwing of the bouquet and garter or other important moments. If you are one for intamacy you can film in comments from the guests by having the videographer interview them for you.

Then there are other brief but vital things that you need to avoid during the making of exceptional wedding dvds. Ask your videographer to be sure that the angles that you are being filmed at will make you look good, that the sound recorded is exceptional so you will be able to hear what is being said during the vows etc, and that the editing between video sections is coherent. A standard practice that professional videographers use is to film much more of your event than is necessary. Extra footage can be stripped down to the best elements only.

Working within  these guidelines may not ovelry ensure that you will get an award winning wedding video but it can enable that you certainly don’t get a colossus mess.

Ever wondered how to really determine your hat size exactly?   Pretty simple, really.   All you do is measure your head in inches using either a tape measure or a string (about the same level that you would wear your hat).  Then you can simply divide that number by PI….you remember…3.14 blah blah blah.

Or, you can just simply use this chart to find the hat size and how it relates to industry standards of Small, Medium, Large, etc.

I recently had to figure something out in windows that has driven me crazy for quite some time.

I edit quite a few files on windows that do not have file extensions.  I wanted to associate my favorite editor to the file when there is no extension, but it appears you can’t do this through XP’s graphical interface.   Here is how to do it:

Under Start->Run…
REGEDIT

You are now in the registry editor.  Create an entry for HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.\shell\open\command

as follows:

Set the Data to be the program you want to use:
C:\Program Files\Vim\vim64\gvim.exe “%1″

or, if you prefer notepad, you can use:
C:\Windows\notepad.exe “%1″