Express Highlights (SDE) Singapore

Express highlights in weddings are becoming one of the norm in the industry. So what is express highlights? Sometimes, it is named Same Day Edit (SDE) which simply means editing the raw footage into a memorable highlights to be screened during the wedding banquet. This is to let your guest know what has happened during the morning session. It ranges from being fun with all the gatecrashing activities to some romantic moments.

The duration of the express highlights ranges from company to company, editor to editor. According to some hotel banquet manager, they have seen same day edit being stretched up to 12 minutes long. Though it can be fun, it can also be a torture to some of the guests since our experience suggest that a guest attention normally gets around 6 minutes before they simply drift off. At The Qing Dynasty, our express highlights are normally around one song up to 4 minutes length. Why do we do only one song? Simply because a song are already composed in accordance to how it begins and how it ends, so we simply follow how the composer likes the song to play. 

A minimum of 6 hours and 3.5 hours uninterrupted preparation time is required for dinner banquet and lunch banquet respectively

The music makes it

As with all videos, it really is the song that creates the mood and sets the tempo for the entire piece. If you have the wrong music, then your wedding montage is not going to create the impact you want. One of the problems with most wedding video or montage is that music is seen as an add-on to the footage, not recognized as just as important (if not more so) than the footage. Music creates the mood and memory. You want to make sure that the music you select is right. You usually can’t find perfect music free. That is a reality of life. Finding someone like The Qing Dynasty who can do your wedding montage animation that has licensing for real, professional music tracks and effects is the place to start.