When you shop around for a videographer, you’ll come across several technical terms. You’ve heard of DV, SD and HD. For those who aren’t sure of the difference, here’s a quick summary.

Many people today own widescreen TV’s that allow them to watch shows and movies in high definition, or HD. HD is the latest in digital quality, and if you have a HD TV, you’ll know first hand the significant increase in quality that HD film has over standard definition (SD). HD film captures at a far higher resolution, so that when you watch it on screen, you see crisp detail (instead of blurry fuzz). To compare HD to SD (or DV), it is like watching the difference between a cinema movie and a 1980’s home video.

Increasingly, people are switching to HD TV’s. If you haven’t yet, chances are you eventually will. Yet unfortunately, many wedding videos are still filmed on DV or SD at standard screen sizes. When these films are played back on HD TV’s, they end up looking like home videos – not professional productions that cost hundreds of dollars.

With The Bird Collective, you can be confident about quality. Every film we shoot is in High Definition. We use the latest HD digital cameras to capture your film in widescreen format (16:9), at 720p. We use radio mics for quality sound on vows and speeches. We then edit using the latest software and can deliver your finished film on DVD or Blue-Ray, or both.