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RTFFX can be the Videographer On Your Wedding Day

Reserve a date with RTFFX online on the "Members Side" of this site

The fee for the wedding package is $750.00.

If you hire RTFFX to videotape your wedding, your level of involvement with how your wedding is videotaped, edited, and authored on DVD, is totally up to you. You can give input on practically every aspect on how your wedding video is produced, leave everything to RTFFX, or it can be anywhere in between. The fee for the service remains the same.

How to Reserve Your Date
To reserve your date online, you must have an RTFFX login account. If you do not have one, signing up is easy here. All you have to do is log in here or from the home page and go to the "Orders" tab, then "Reserve a Date" and follow the instructions there. You can also send an email to info@rtffx.com. Include in the message the date of the wedding. Either way, once your date is confirmed, your reservation is not official until you submit at least a 10 % deposit ($75.00). On the "Members Side", you can pay the deposit or the rest of the balance online with Paypal.

You can Arrange to Meet the Videographer First

To help you decide whether or not to go with RTFFX, you can arrange to meet the Videographer before you make your decision. Examples of video shot by RTFFX (with actual wedding footage) will be made available.

What the Wedding Package Includes
The wedding package includes Special Event Videotaping of selected moments of the entire day from the wedding ceremony up to and including the departure from the reception. Other happenings which are event related, such as the bride "getting ready" can also be videotaped as well..Attendance at at least one rehearsal or meeting is included (this is recommended). Normally a rehearsal would not be videotaped and therefore it would not be included in the "final" (edited) video. However, some test video may be shot at the rehearsal just to make sure "things are right". It is recommended that you indicate as soon as possible if there are any "out of the ordinary" requirements you might have. It is very likely that you can be accommodated for the package price if what you want done falls withing the scheduled time.

The package also includes Editing of the Video including Custom Editing, and Custom DVD Authoring using the edited video (For other information about DVDs, see the DVD FAQ, click here.). The DVD Authoring includes design and creation of the number of the initial copies of DVDs required for the length of the edited video. Also included are up to nine (9) additional copies of the initial set of DVDs. Due to the amount of video and audio generated during a typical wedding, "dual layer discs" are always used for the final results. These discs can be authored directly without the need of having the discs made by a replicator.

You may also optionally add up to several hundred of your favorite photos, which will be digitized if necessary and presented in the form of a DVD "Slideshow". Appropriate royalty-free and publicly copyright free music will be supplied and synchronized to the slideshow. The photos could be family photos of the bride and groom (such as photos of them from the past to the present). The photos can also be from the wedding photos taken that day. However, you may be required to get permission from the photographer to use his or her photos. Normally this not a problem, however. If the current wedding photos are used, they can be added to the DVD(s) when the photos are available.

Videographer travel is included to Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts. If you are located in Maine, contact RTFFX. If a project is agreed to, you can assume that travel is included. Other paid by client travel arrangements can certainly be made.

Other options you can consider for your wedding event which are included:

  • The entire video or selected portions of it can be "Widescreen", stored as "Anamorphic Video" using a 16:9 "Aspect Ratio".
  • Optional use of a wireless microphone in addition to a standard "shotgun type" microphone.
  • Videotaping of personal messages to the bride and groom by your guests. The audio for this is best recorded with a wireless microphone.
  • Reasonable touch-up of your photos, if necessary, if you have photos you want to use in a slideshow. "Reasonable" means: Please don't expect miracles on badly damaged photos!
  • Lighting assistance if something has to be taped in very low light conditions. (You should indicate when this might occur and for what length of time). Every attempt to accommodate your requirements will be made with the resources available. However, it may not be possible to meet all of your requirements. Most current digital camcorders perform fairly well in low light conditions. Most often additional lighting is unnecessary. You should still indicate when room lights, for example, might be turned down.
  • Dual Layer DVDs:. Normally, the amount of video shot during a wedding is large. It is not unusual for 4-6 hours of "raw" video to be created. Even when all of it is edited, it is very unlikely that all of this video will fit onto a single layer DVD..The wedding reception, by itself, could occupy all of one layer of a DVD. For this reason, weddings are always authored by RTFFX using dual layer discs. Two layer discs effectively double the amount of space available. For example, a two layer video-only disc could hold approximately four (4) hours of video. The ability to author two layer disc without the necessity of using a replicator (and adding additional expense) has releatively recently become available. So, in other words, your video (and slideshows, and everything else), will end up on a dual-layer DVD.
  • Previews: You have the option of "Review Discs" or "Online Preview" but not both.. Review Discs are approximations or, in other words, they "resemble" the final resultant DVDs. They are always multiple single layer DVDs. Only the "final copy" is created on dual layer DVD.. They have "time-code" and "watermarks" superimposed over the video (the reason is that you probably haven't paid for the final copy yet!). You can also preview your project online, on this website. There is the ability to preview both video and slideshows. Although a high speed internet connection is recommended to use this, it is still possible to do it this way even if your internet access is through a dial-up connection. It is expected that this online method will get projects to completion faster than with review discs. More information about online previews can be found here.

If you have seen an effect or method of presentation elsewhere that you would like used in your video, don't hesitate to ask about it. There is a good chance it, or something like it, can be included in the package price.

The DVD Authoring included in this package provides one of two options you can select relating how the DVD is constructed. You may specify either a conventional design or one that involves digital effects (See below). Note that if you select the "Digital" option, you will be able to brag to your friends that you have "sophisticated special effects" in your wedding video! Here is a discussion of some possible options:

Options for the DVD Introduction
Conventional A conventional set of menus with still image or motion video backgrounds will be designed and created based on your video content. Every production will be unique. Some suggestions:
  • The DVD is divided into two sections, one for the wedding ceremony, the other the reception. A so-called "top level" menu is provided when the DVD is loaded to select to which section you wish to go. Each section could have a motion video clip, a "highlight" as the background of the "Main menu". Note that it is possible to use different clips each time one goes to the "main menu". Each section would include a separate "scene index". In other words, there is a scene index for the wedding and one for the reception. A possible variation on this scheme would be to have each section reside on its own single layer DVD instead of having both reside on the same DVD (where a dual layer disc may need to be used)
  • The wedding ceremony and reception are logically combined.. There would be one (larger) scene index. This scheme would require additional buttons on the main menu.because of the increased number of video options. In other words, buttons would be needed so that one could decide whether to play everything, or certain parts of the video only, such as the wedding ceremony or the reception (or even both!).

With either of the above options, you could have:

  • Highlights - a button is present to play a selected series of scenes. (this is called a "story" in DVD terminology)
  • One (or more) slideshows inserted into a video sequence. A slideshow, for example, could be played at the beginning, the middle, or at the end of the video. A button on the main menu could also be provided to play only the video, skipping the slideshow(s).
Digital The DVD Navigation, or "How You Get Around" on your DVD will be based on a digitally created set of animations using the theme of a "fly-through" over a city block. When the disc is inserted, the first images shown is a movie where the "camera" is moving over a city block towards a 3D likeness of your actual church. The "Wedding March" is the background music. The camera descends into an alley, crosses a street, then flies toward the front door. As it approaches the set of outside doors, they open, revealing an inner set of doors, part of the "lobby", which then also open. One can now see the church interior. The camera then moves through the inner doors, then down the aisle towards the altar, then turns towards a podium at the back of the church. On the podium is a book or two or more books.

You can download and view an animation example which is similar to how your animation would look on the movie demo page. There is also a sample "Book Animation" there which illustrates how the book opens and the pages turn.

Possible variations after the "camera" approaches the podium:

  • Single Book. The "camera" zooms to a view of a single book. On the outside of the book is printed, for example: "The Wedding of (Your name(s) here)" and the date of the event. When the camera is close enough, the book opens to the main index.to what ultimately become menu buttons. "Play Wedding" and "Play Reception" followed by "Wedding Scenes" and "Reception Scenes" (these are scene indexes). If the play buttons are selected, the appropriate movie plays. If one of the indexes is selected, the book turns its pages to the corresponding index, where an individual scene can be selected. In other words, on the DVD, a "page" of this "book" will end up being the menu - after the book turns to the selected page, the "camera" will zoom into the page, the page filling the screen, and you will be able to select one of the lines of the text with your DVD player remote control. (Besides text, graphics can also be made selectable.). For example, if you selected "At the Church", the book would turn its pages until it got to the page which has the play movie button and the button for scene index for what took place at the church. At that point, it would zoom in on that menu. Then you would be able to select what you wanted to view.
  • Two Books - One for the "Wedding" and the other for "The Reception" A possible variation you could request would be to have TWO books on the podium, the books corresponding to the wedding itself and the reception respectively. With two books one would select the book first. The selected book would be highlighted in some way. Pressing ENTER on the player remote control would open the selected book, revealing the appropriate index. The viewer would then navigate in a similar way as with the "Single Book" described above, except that the subject matter would be limited to what is related to the book title. This means that if you selected "Reception", everything from now on would have to do only with the reception (unless you went back up to the top level menu).
  • Two or More Books - This would be similar to the "Two Book" case except that one or more additional "Books" would be added if there were more categories than "Ceremony" and "Reception" (maybe the photo slideshow, or "Other").
  • Other - Come up with your own suggestions! It probably could be done for the package price.