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We specialize in filming and producing video in the following areas:

Wedding Videography Orange County

Remember your special day in stunning detail in high-definition. Get your whole wedding professionally produced on our Blu-ray discs, which will be able to be played in any modern Blu-ray player. With multiple photographers and videographers at hand, We can setup multiple cameras for the best shots from around the party. We are flexible to fit almost any size wedding or budget, whether it’s a small ceremony in your backyard or a big extravaganza! We use the latest technology and equipment to make sure your wedding will look stunning in high-definition.

Event Videography Orange County

Whether you’re putting on an event, a celebration, or just a special occasion, Videoto Studio is here to get it all in high-definition video complete with stunning photographs. At Videoto, we are capable of filming just about any type or size of event, from a 5 year old’s superhero themed birthday party to to your family reunion with hundreds attending. We have affordable options for all of our services. Record your event and be able to share it for a lifetime!

Post-Production Orange County

Motion graphics, sound design, pacing, cutting, and rendering are all part of the day to day work of our highly trained in-house editors. We have professional editing workstations in three locations in Southern California (San Diego, Irvine, Los Angeles); you can work one-on-one with whichever editor is the most convenient for you. Whether your photos or footage was shot by us or someone else, our editing doors are open to all. Our editors use the “Sony Vegas” editing platform to help bring your projects to fruition. We can work with both High-Definition and Standard Definition video and offer a wide range of services including slideshows, photo restoration, audio enhancement, titles, etc. The sky is the limit! Please call us to discuss your project.

Sports Videography in Orange County

From baseball games to wrestling tournaments, Videoto Studio has the equipment and experience needed to make a lasting video you can keep and share with family and friends. We’ll capture every second of the action and piece it together to make either a DVD or a Blu-ray that you will be remembered by. Contact us today to set up a consult.

Business Video Production in Orange County

We live in an increasingly digital era where media is part of our lives at every turn, including business. Businesses have much to gain with professional video production and photography such as a unique way to show off a new product or service, or a modern way to present new training material to your associates. We work with businesses to create dynamic and interesting videos and photos to help your business achieve its goals. Do you need training videos to teach, orientation videos to welcome, or photos and video of meetings and conferences? You can hire a Videographer or Photographer to come to you and get a high quality product to be used in your business. Call up the professionals to get professional results.

Advertising Video Production

With all of the commercials, advertisements and promotions in day-to-day life, it’s hard to differentiate your product against the herd of competitors. With Videoto Studio on your side, we can help you produce high-quality video and photos to help elevate your business and products. Our professional staff can help you make your services and products stand out and be memorable. All of our services are designed to get you the best quality commercial media in the most cost effective way possible.

The technology used by videographers has certainly advanced leaps and bounds in just the last few years. For instance, if you were to get married ten years ago you would have received your special day on a VHS tape. 5 years ago most videographers would give their clients a DVD copy of their wedding. Today, the way to go is High Definition. Blu-ray is the next generation in viewing video and it’s a proven format that looks amazing. When comparing DVD to Blu-ray there are many things to consider. DVD is a standard definition format. A DVD can only hold about 4.7GB of data whether it be video, images, music or anything in a digital format. A single layer Blu-ray, on the other hand, can hold up to 25GB. That’s a lot of data… about 5 times the amount of a DVD.

What does this mean for your videos? Higher definition picture, higher quality sound, higher quality menus and bonus features. Of course, the videographers here at Videoto do much more than wedding videos. Sporting events, corporate videos, ads, training videos, birthday parties, holiday celebrations, bar/bat mitzvahs, these are just a few examples of what our videographers can capture in High Defintion and put onto a Blu-ray disc.

Need a slide show for your special event? Why not put that on a Blu-ray? Our editors can create high quality slide shows for any event and with 1080p high definition, your slide shows will look great and your guests will be amazed.

What does the p stand for in 1080p? Progressive. The videos we’ve been used to for so long on VHS and DVD are interlaced. Interlacing is just a fancy way of letting you know the signal you are viewing is compressed. When a video is interlaced we are not seeing the entire image on the screen at once. TVs are made of of lines of resolution. An interlaced signal plays the odd lines first, then the even lines. The images flash so quickly that it gives off the illusion of a continuous image. However, the issue with Interlaced video is that movement can create a blurry effect. This is why when you are watching a movie on an old VHS tape or a DVD you will see tiny lines at the edge of your TV. With Progressive scanning you are seeing the entire picture. Every line is on screen at the same time and therefore you get a much cleaner, more crisp image. Our videographers shoot High defintion video in the progressive format, which is what you typically see on a Blu-ray disc. With high defintion the image resolution is 1920×1080… compare that to the 720×480 resolution you get from a DVD.

The best possible way for you to view High Definition footage on your TV is on a Blu-ray disc and HD TVs are becoming more popular by the day. One great thing about Blu-ray players is that they can still play your DVDs. In fact, many Blu-ray players offer a DVD upscaling feature which digitally enhances the quality of the DVDs you already own, so they look better on a High Defintion TV. How convenient is that?

Be Prepared
Make sure you are prepared for the environment in which you will be recording at. Whenever you take your camcorder with you, there are some key items you should always bring.

• Spare battery
• Blank tapes/memory cards
• Lens cleaner
• Camcorder wires and cables
• Accessories: microphones lighting, lens filters

Lighting adjustments
Lighting is one of the most critical aspects of a videography shoot. Bad lighting conditions could very well ruin the whole project, depending on the look you’re going for. Most cameras don’t do a very good job under poor lighting conditions, often producing grainy, hard to see images, which can’t be touched up in post-production. If at all possible, it’s best to shoot outdoors, during the daytime, as the ambient sunlight will ensure your scene is fully lit. Our advice for when the lights are too low for where you’re sooting is to disable the autofocus features on your camcorder, otherwise you risk getting that annoying pulsing effect from the lens trying to lock onto a subject.

Audio levels
Along with lighting, audio is another critical component to a good shot. If you’re going for a professional quality shoot, you should be prepared with extra microphones to capture the myriad of sounds around you. The built-in mics that come stock with your camcorders are generally not the best, and can be improved many times over by using a good quality external microphone. This is especially important if shooting any sort of interview or other scenes with heavy dialogue.

Set up the shots
Photographers often employ a “rule of thirds” guideline. The guideline proposes that an image should be imagined as divided into nine equal parts by two equally-spaced horizontal lines and two equally-spaced vertical lines (like a tic-tac-toe), and that important compositional elements should be placed along these lines or their intersections. Proponents of the technique claim that aligning a subject with these points creates more tension, energy and interest in the composition than simply centering the subject would. Setting up your videography shots using this same principal is a good practice, and creates more dramatic shots. It’s also wise to go easy on your camcorders built-in effects, as you can always add these in later using video editing software.

Managing Zoom levels
Zooming on your camcorder is a nice feature which allows you to take close up shots without physically moving closer to the targer subject. However, be careful not to zoom in too far into the “digital zoom” territory, which creates a pixelated mess when viewed later. Digital zoom is misleading because as you increase the zoom level, the camcorder crops further and further into the center of the image, enlarging that cropped portion so it fills the screen, resulting in choppy, pixelated video. We recommend turning this feature off in your camcorder options to prevent over-zooming.

Although convenient and easy to use, VHS camcorders were pretty bulky and could be tiresome to use. In response to the demand for a smaller recording device, the VHS-C tape was developed which was a much smaller version of the VHS tape which could be used in a specialized adapter to play in a standard VCR. This smaller form proved to be popular as it allowed for camcorders that could be held in the palm of your hand, without requiring additional equipment to view the tapes. The average recording time of a VHS-C tape was about 30 minutes and was seen as the main drawback of the format.

To counter this problem, Sony introduced the Video8 recording system in 1985. Video8 tapes were seen as beneficial because they had superior recording quality, and had the capability to be recorded up to 2 hours on one tape. The disadvantage consumers found with the Video8 format was that they weren’t compatible with the wildly popular VCRs that people had grown to love. In order to play back any footage, and expensive Video8 player was needed or the camcorder must be plugged in and wired into the television.

Videography is the process of capturing moving images on electronic media such as video tape, hard drive, DVD, Blu-ray etc. Videography can also be described as the art of shooting video. It’s a way to provide viewers of your material a cinematic experience by employing modern techniques to make your footage look edgy, colorful and full of life. videographers typically employ a variety of methods, depending on the situation, such as lighting manipulation, changing out cameras or lenses, setting up multiple cameras and stationary cameras, and using external microphones to capture all of the sounds around them. It’s common to find videographers at large social events such as weddings, corporate events, business meetings, presentations and sporting events.

The rise of digital imaging and video in the late 90s and early 2000s started to blur the line between what we know as videography and cinematography. The fast growth of home computers and the internet has paved the way for videography to now cover many more fields than just shooting video with a camercorder, including digital animation (such as Flash), gaming, web streaming, video blogging, still slideshows, remote sensing, spatial imaging, medical imaging, security camera imaging, and in general the production of most bitmap- and vector-based assets. As videography progresses further, videographers may produce their work entirely on a computer without ever involving an imaging device, using software-based components.

A videographer may be the actual camera operator or they may be the person in charge of the visual design of a production (the latter being more or less the equivalent of a cinematographer).