DVD and videos are a great marketing resource for any wedding photographer and are heavily underused. Done well they can enhance and promote your brand and make a contribution to your SEO traffic. It is vital to realise that the creating of a DVD slideshow is easy and there are a number of different systems available to do that. Once it has been produced it is important to distribute it in as many different forms and as widely as possible. Let's take a look at some of the options:
The easy way to Make A Slideshow
There are numerous systems available from different suppliers. For several years the industry leader was a system called ProShow Gold (for the PC). Mac users have always had excellent DVD creation tools like Final Cut. However in the last couple of years there's a new (web hosted) DVD system called Animoto. It does not provide all the power and adaptability of the other systems but this explains why it is so good for a lot of photographers "it's so simple to utilise and produces great results. Upload your images, choose your music and 'BAM ' you've a striking slideshow.
Slideshows can be put on your website as marketing demonstrations of your work, they can be burned to DVD and sent out to clients to play on their home systems or they can be uploaded to YouTube or other video hosting sites for everybody to see.
Remember, if you upload a video to any site that is not your own, always include a description of your services and a link pointing back to your internet site.
Second thing to bear in mind. Always include your company name, webs address, telephone and email address in the slideshow itself "so even if it gets copied and re-used, you info is always visible.
The easy way to Make A Slideshow
There are numerous systems available from different suppliers. For several years the industry leader was a system called ProShow Gold (for the PC). Mac users have always had excellent DVD creation tools like Final Cut. However in the last couple of years there's a new (web hosted) DVD system called Animoto. It does not provide all the power and adaptability of the other systems but this explains why it is so good for a lot of photographers "it's so simple to utilise and produces great results. Upload your images, choose your music and 'BAM ' you've a striking slideshow.
Slideshows can be put on your website as marketing demonstrations of your work, they can be burned to DVD and sent out to clients to play on their home systems or they can be uploaded to YouTube or other video hosting sites for everybody to see.
Remember, if you upload a video to any site that is not your own, always include a description of your services and a link pointing back to your internet site.
Second thing to bear in mind. Always include your company name, webs address, telephone and email address in the slideshow itself "so even if it gets copied and re-used, you info is always visible.
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Pixcellence wedding photography are based in London and Birmingham and the majority of their work is Indian wedding photography. See their website for full information.
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