Monday, 20 January 2014

Producing Video Tributes In-House, Versus Outsourcing



With the latest funeral technology, death care professionals can easily and cost effectively produce video tributes in-house. Plus, the quality of these memorial tribute videos is amazing.
As a funeral home, you have two choices on how you want to produce your video tributes. Do them yourself in-house, or hire an outside provider. Ten years ago, hiring your video tributes to an outside provider was probably more common than it is today. As technology has progressed and funeral technology companies have appeared with an all-in-one-suite that makes the DVD production so easy, it doesn't really make sense to outsource anymore.
There are several factors on why it makes more sense to produce your video tributes in-house, verses outsourcing. I'll step through each and every one.
1. Cost: Most outsourced providers charge between $100-$200 dollars and limit the size of the video to 20-30 photos. If you go above and beyond the standard number of photos, they charge you an additional per photo charge. If you produce your video tributes in-house, you might be looking at a cost of around $15-20 and you can do as many photos as you wish. Not to mention, you can also produce as many additional copies as you want at no additional charge.
2. Time and Convenience: Do you think it is really more convenient to outsource your video tributes? Not exactly. Think about it, most out sourcing companies require you to scan in all the photos, email the photos, download the completed video, and then burn the disk. If you are going to complete all those steps, why not just put together rest of the video yourself? Matter a fact, I'd argue with anyone that putting the video tribute together is the easy part. The hard part is meeting with the family, collecting the photos and scanning the photos. Also, what happens if the family brings the photos in at last minute? There is no way possible an outsourced solution provider is going to be able to create a tribute video in time.
3. Quality: This is a big one. Over the past couple weeks I have posted a few other blog posts about tribute videos. I had two separate out sourced solution providers comment that funeral homes are not capable of producing the same kind of quality. My reply was, post an example of your tribute video and let's compare. Out of the two solution providers, guess how many of them posted an example? Zero!
The truth is, the list could go on and on about why you should do your own tribute videos in-house. But I'll rest with the top three main points above. If you're looking for the ultimate tribute video software that creates the highest quality video tribute, in short amount of time, and at an affordable cost, find the latest generation funeral technology company and get started today.