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Q. Why are you more expensive than some of your competitors?
A. The bottom line is that you get more with Luxury Home Video. We typically provide more locations videotaped in our standard price, more attention to editing, and more time spent on your project. All this translates into a better quality video.

Some companies lure you in with a very low price that makes you wonder, “How can they possibly travel to the site, set up their equipment, shoot all the scenes, edit the video, add music, publish it to the web, and provide a DVD for only $200?” Well, your gut feeling about this kind of offer is correct. Of course, major quality compromises must be made, and you end up getting what you pay for!

Read closer and you are likely to discover that the initial price limits you to only 5 scenes or equipment setups with additional setups costing $25 or more. To give you an idea of how many setups it takes to make a good video, take a look at the 117 Bishop and 203 Alvarado video tours. Each of those uses over 10 scenes. Many more were videotaped to provide the editor with a variety of choices. By the time you add in all the extra charges, our competitors prices can cost more than ours.

We keep our prices as low as possible while paying our professional videographers and editors a decent wage. We could pay less for our talent but then we would have to rely on amateurs with less skill and non-professional equipment. We believe that your clients deserve the best we can provide when their valuable property is offered for sale.

Q. What about sound?
A. Music in a video is more important than many people realize. We use high quality music licensed from full service recording studios. Some video editors save time by first editing the scenes together, and then simply adding a musical track without further synchronization to the scenes.

We do it differently! First we select music that goes with the character of the estate. (We invite your input on this.) Does jazz, classical, popular, new age best suite the property? Then, we edit to the music. We analyze the music for its rhythms and dynamics, and then cut the scenes to fit the music. This produces a more professional and appealing video. A good example is the video for 208 Taylor.


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