Can Our Tribute Videos Be Used With Obitus?
Many crematoriums and funeral venues in the UK use Obitus to manage music, visual tributes and video playback during funeral services.
Everlasting Tributes is not connected with Obitus, but the tribute videos we create are supplied as finished video files, usually in MP4 format. This means they can often be provided to your funeral arranger or venue as a family-supplied video file, where this option is available.
How it normally works
If the funeral venue uses Obitus, your funeral arranger will usually be the person who places the visual tribute order and manages the upload process.
Once we have created your finished tribute video, you can send the completed video file to your funeral arranger and ask whether it can be uploaded as a family-supplied video tribute.
The exact process depends on the venue, the service package chosen, the deadline and the type of Obitus tribute option being used. Your funeral arranger or venue should be able to confirm what is possible.
Why choose a professionally made tribute video?
A venue slideshow can be suitable for simple photo playback during a service. However, many families want something more personal and complete — a video that can be watched again, shared privately, and kept long after the funeral day has passed.
With Everlasting Tributes, we create a finished tribute video for you using your chosen photos, short video clips, wording, memories and music choices. This gives you a more personal keepsake that is not limited to being shown only during the funeral service.
Our videos can be used:
- At a funeral service, where the venue accepts family-supplied video
- At a wake, memorial gathering or celebration of life
- At home with family and friends
- As a private digital keepsake
- As a thoughtful gift for someone who has lost a loved one
- To share with relatives who could not attend the service
Photos, video clips and a more personal story
Some venue tribute options are mainly built around photographs and may have limits on the number of images included. Our tribute videos are created separately as finished video edits, so we can work with a more thoughtful structure, include short video clips where suitable, and shape the video around the person’s life, family and memories.
This can make the final video feel less like a basic slideshow and more like a personal remembrance film.
Supplying the video for the funeral service
If your funeral venue uses Obitus, a finished tribute video can often be supplied as a family-provided video file. The process is normally a matter of sending the completed file to your funeral arranger in time for them to upload it before the service deadline, provided your chosen tribute option allows this.
We supply your finished tribute video as a standard video file, usually in MP4 format. This is the type of file normally used for video playback, making it suitable for sharing with your funeral arranger or venue. If they request an alternative format, please let us know and we will provide it wherever possible.
The main things to confirm are the submission deadline, the preferred file format and whether your chosen service package includes video playback. Your funeral arranger should be able to advise you on these practical details.
If you are arranging a funeral and would like the video shown during the service, you can simply tell your funeral arranger that you have a completed family-supplied tribute video file to provide for playback.
A keepsake beyond the funeral day
A funeral service is brief, but memories continue long afterwards. Our tribute videos are designed to be kept, rewatched and shared, whether or not they are used during the funeral itself.
This means the finished video can become both a service tribute and a lasting family keepsake.
How Everlasting Tributes can help
Everlasting Tributes creates finished tribute and keepsake videos from your photographs, short video clips, music choices, wording and memories. You send us the material, and we carefully edit the video for you.
View our tribute video styles or contact us if you would like help creating a video for a funeral service, wake, celebration of life or lasting family keepsake.