Video and Film production is a multi-dimensional medium.

Like 3-D chess, you must gage the impact of your actions
on many different planes.

In 1973, I saw my first light-weight Nagra 1/4 inch audio tape deck for recording sync sound with 16mm film. Just a year before, we were lugging around a "luggable" Magna-Sync 16mm magnetic film recorder that weighed about five times as much. Crystal sync technology finally allowed us to break the umbilical cord between the film camera and the sound recorder. Suddenly,16mm filmmaking had gone portable.

Within a few short years, the portable video camera had eclipsed the 16mm film camera as the dominant tool of industrial "motion picture" production. When tape replaced film, it required an entirely new editing technology. Where film editing was interactive, allowing easy scene inserts and deletions, video editing was linear, requiring re-assembly or re-dubbing to make a single shot change. But the "new" video technology also brought benefits: faster shooting, expanded special effects, and easier playback of the final product.

Today, video and film have joined with the computer revolution, ushering in the digital age. The microprocessor now works its magic inside cameras and postproduction systems. Film can now be transferred to digital tape for less expensive finishing. AVID and other nonlinear digital editors, have restored the flexibility and creativity of film-style editing to video editing. Powerful 2-D and 3-D software programs have added an unlimited graphics, animation, and special effects capability to both film and video productions.

I invite you to view some recent projects and discover the ways we are applying the latest video and film technologies to meet our clients' communication objectives. Your also invited to take a closer look at the scriptwriting process -- the creative foundation of every successful production -- and view some sample scripts.