The Power of a Funeral Tribute Video

When looking at ways to personalize the funeral or memorial service, the one thing you should not forget is the funeral tribute video. In my opinion, the funeral tribute video is one of the most powerful healing tools for all friends and family who are involved. When the tribute video is done right, with photos spanning the loved one’s life and perfectly synced to music to make the photos come alive, you can create an unbelievable memorable experience for everyone involved.

To make the most powerful tribute videos, it all starts with the software. Frazer Consultants all-in-one-suite is called the Tribute Center. It allows you to create tribute DVD’s, funeral stationery, and funeral webcasting, at a click of a button. The power of this funeral software is unbelievable.

The Tribute DVD module will allow your funeral home to create the most amazing tribute videos you have ever imagined. Starting with Tribute Center’s Hollywood style intros that can take you through the clouds, over the top of a mountain, alongside a white sand beach, or on a serene journey through the forest. You set the healing experience that you want to take the family on right from the beginning.

The next step is to help the family select the most meaningful photos to include in the tribute video. Encourage the family to select photos that span the loved one’s life. All the way back to the most innocent and cute baby pictures, to the goofy and sometimes downright funny college photos. All you have to remember is this, there is really no right or wrong photo, whatever the family thinks will tell the life story the best.

Once the photos are selected, now it’s your job to bring the photos to life with the most perfect motion effects. This means panning the photos from top to bottom, from left to right, and zooming in or zooming out. When adding motion effects, remember that less motion is always better then more motion. You want to keep it soft and subtle. Only add motion where it makes sense and don’t overdo it.

When choosing music for the tribute video, choose a song that best reflects the loved one’s life. In most cases, the family will already have a few choices they have been thinking about. However, below I have compiled a list of most popular funeral tribute songs for your review:

Name of Song	Artist
Heaven Was Needing a Hero	Joe Dee Messena
My Heart Will Go On	Celine Dion
Wind Beneath My Wings	Bette Midler
Bridge Over Troubled Water	Simon and Garfunkel
Smile	Chris Rice
I Know You by Heart	Eva Cassidy
Have I Told You Lately That I Love you	Rod Stewart
Last Time by Moonlight	Enya
You Raise Me Up	Josh Groban
To Where You Are	Josh Groban
Remember Me	Josh Groban
You’re Still You	Josh Groban
For Always	Josh Groban
Smile	Josh Groban
In the Arms of The Angel	Josh Groban and Sarah McLachlan
Vincent	Josh Groban
When I Get Where I’m Going	Brad Paisley
You Can Let Go	Crystal Shawanda
Thank You	Jonny Reid
Until We’re Together Again	Tiffany Coburn
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Somewhere Over the Rainbow	Leona Lewis
Somewhere Over the Rainbow	Israel Kamakawiwo’ole’s Version
A Living Prayer	Alison Krauss
At Last	Etta James
I Miss You	Avril Lavigne
So Far Away	Carole King
Yesterday	The Beatles
Time	Alan Parsons Project
I’ll Stand by You	Carrie Underwood
I Believe	Diamond Rio
One More Day	Diamond Rio
I Don’t wanna Miss a Thing	Aersmith
Livin’ Without You	TmobileTerrorist
Saying Goodbye to You	Karina Long
I Want You to Live	George Canyon
If I’d Have Known	Dillon J. Woods
Without You	Mariah Carey
Memory	Barry Manilow
The Twelfth of Never	Johnny Mathis
All Things Must Pass	George Harrison
If Tomorrow Never Comes	arry Manilow
If I Should Love Again	Barry Manilow
Together Forever	Barry Manilow
Answer	Sarah McLachlan
I’ll Find you	Katie Giguere
Holes in the Floor of Heaven	Billy Kirsch and Steve Wariner
The Dance	Garth Brooks
The Living Years	Mike and the Mechanics
Lullabye (Goodnight My Angel)	Billy Joel
I’ll Be seeing You	Jimmy Durante

The last step of creating a tribute video is putting it on a medium that can be shared and remembered for years to come. The Tribute Center software allows you to burn the DVD at one click of a button. Also, you are able to share it on your website with another click of a button. This allows friends and family to come to your website to watch the tribute video at any time.

Frazer Consultants Tribute Center is the leading funeral software for tribute DVD’s, funeral stationery, and funeral webcasting. For more information about funeral tribute video software, please visit the website or call 866-372-9372.