You're in the wedding videos too, you just can't find yourself

Photos at least have thumbnails. You can scroll a grid and squint. Videos don't give you that. A twelve-minute sangeet performance shows one frame on the cover, and you have no idea whether you're in it until you've watched the whole thing.

So most people don't. The videos sit in a folder, and guests see the two or three that someone happens to forward.

Videos are where the best moments live

A photo catches a pose. A video catches the bit right before and after: the cousins messing up the choreography and laughing through it, the grandfather getting pulled onto the dance floor, the speech that made the room go quiet.

These are the clips people rewatch for years. They're also the ones guests are least likely to ever get.

Finding faces inside a video

When a video is uploaded to a Glimpse event, we sample frames from across the whole clip and look for faces in each of them, the same way we do for photos. Those faces are matched against the selfies guests have added.

If you appear anywhere in the video, even for a few seconds near the end, the video shows up in your gallery. You don't have to watch twelve minutes of someone else's performance to find your thirty seconds.

Sized for phones, not for editing suites

The files photographers shoot are huge. A few minutes of high-resolution footage can run into gigabytes, which is fine for an editing machine and useless on a phone on mobile data.

So alongside the original, we make a compressed playback copy for guests. It starts quickly and plays smoothly on a phone, and it's still sharp enough to enjoy. The studio keeps control of the original.

Private, like the photos

Guests only see the videos they've been found in, plus anything the host has put in a shared folder. We don't show a guest who else was found in a clip. If a video of the bride's college friends dancing has nothing to do with you, you won't see it.

For photographers

Upload videos the same way you upload photos, into whichever folder they belong. Large files go up in parts, so a dropped connection at the venue doesn't mean starting again. Faces are found automatically once the upload finishes, and guests who have already joined see their clips without you sending anything.

It's one more reason for guests to remember who filmed the wedding.