A DVCAM format is best for your wedding video as it has a faster tape speed and a wider track pitch. This means that the data is recorded over a larger area, which reduces dropouts (dropouts are defects in the picture caused by the physical loss of the particles used on the tape to record). This makes DVCAM a much sturdier and dependable format. You can also play this format anywhere and on different types of viewing equipment.

As the copy of your wedding video, after editing, may not be in DVCAM format you can request to have a copy in the DVCAM format. This will ensure that you can later have it transferred to a compatible format for newer TV's and equipment.MiniDV, DVCAM (Sony), and DVCPRO (Panasonic) all utilize the same compression method called DV25 (which is sometimes just referred to as DV compression). The data rate is 25 mbps. This is why it's called DV25. This makes makes it easy to predict how much space an amount of video will take up on a hard drive. Here are some useful figures (sizes are approximate):Because both video and audio information are recorded magnetically, a video will last indefinitely with no loss of quality if it is properly stored.