With the recent trend to shoot a cinematic, film like wedding video, I thought it would be good to share some of the basic technical camera parameters to discuss with your professional wedding videographer so you can achieve this look.  It is a good thing for you to get educated about this because it makes a tremendous difference in the look of your video. The first thing to ask your hired shooter(s) is what kind of capabilities for a film like look do their cameras possess?  The camera should be an HD widescreen (16×9 screen aspect ratio) capable camera, with format settings that allow 24P or 30P.  The camera must be able to shoot in a de-interlaced mode.  Interlaced video (60i) refers to a frame of video that is composed of an upper and lower field or simply 2 frames of video in one.  Interlaced HD footage is bright, bold, somewhat clean and stark, and designed more for broadcast TV.  24P or 30P is de-interlaced, and refers to the number of frames recorded per second and the P refers to progressive, which means that the camera can film a single frame of content much like a frame on a celluloid movie film strip.  Progressive footage, in appearance is softer, richer in color, and seems to react better to the effects of light.  Also, 24 frames per second (fps) gives a slightly more flicker-like film appearance than 30 fps.  So…watch out for wedding shooters that only shoot 60i fps HD – unless tat is what you want…it will look good, but will not yield the film like look that folks cherish today…a very subtle, but very important point.