A Pixieset alternative for wedding videographers

Is Pixieset good for videographers

It can host your films. Pixieset video delivery, per its help center, needs an upgraded Client Gallery or Suite plan, at up to 4K on select plans, in MP4, MOV, AVI or M4V. Video downloads come as MP4 up to 2048 pixels on the long edge, with 4K downloads on its Pro and Ultimate plans. The same page says selling video downloads through the collection storefront is not supported.

Pixieset describes itself as a platform for photographers, and much of it serves stills: proofing with favorites and comments, print and download sales with automatic fulfillment, RAW file sharing, a Lightroom integration and an AI Photo Editor for editing and culling photos. For a hybrid studio that is a real strength. For a studio that only makes films, that side of the platform goes unused.

Studio Manager and Hailo's front office

Pixieset Studio Manager is its CRM for bookings and payments: a booking site, availability, intake forms, contracts, questionnaires, quotes, invoices, payment schedules and reminders, mini sessions, a project board, contact forms, a calendar, and a mobile app with Tap to Pay.

As a Pixieset Studio Manager alternative, Hailo covers the same ground in its Manage wing, shaped for wedding films. Couples browse an investment guide and build their own package, then sign the contract and pay the deposit from one link. Payment plans split the balance and reminders go out on their own when a payment is due soon or late. Email sequences halt the moment a couple replies. Proposals and contracts shows that side in full.

A Pixieset alternative for video delivery

Hailo's gallery is a film page first. Upload a 4K export and the couple streams and downloads it in 4K; if the connection drops mid-upload, it picks back up. On most looks, turn downloads on or off per gallery. Add a password, and set the order of the films with one marked as the main film. Read more on 4K streaming and download.

Around the films sit the parts that help a video studio earn and get found: upsells with checkout for raw footage or an extra edit, vendor credits that link every vendor from the day, a Google review prompt, and analytics on who watched and how far. If you deliver through a Pixieset video gallery today, these are the pieces to compare.

One thing to know: a Hailo gallery closes a year after the newest film was uploaded unless you buy it more years. It is a delivery page, not an archive, so keep your own copy.

Before the gallery: the footage

Pixieset's AI Photo Editor works on stills. Hailo's footage tools work on video, and they start at the card reader. Every card offloads at once and is verified file by file. Clips come back labeled by moment, with the shaky stretches trimmed and every camera synced into one multicam. The ceremony and the toasts arrive already cut. Then the whole wedding opens in Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro or DaVinci Resolve, organized one of four ways, with your original footage still on your Mac. See opening a wedding in your editor.

What Pixieset does that Hailo does not

Weighing Pixieset alternatives for video means weighing what you would leave behind. Here is that list.

• Photos. Hailo delivers films only. There is no photo gallery, proofing or print sales.
• A website. Pixieset includes a website builder. Hailo does not; its inquiry form and galleries embed on the site you have.
• Photo editing and culling. Nothing in Hailo touches stills.
• Mini sessions and Tap to Pay. Neither is in Hailo.
• Eight gallery languages. Hailo's wording is American English.
• Mobile apps. Hailo has none; the office and delivery wings work in a phone's browser, and the footage tools need a Mac.