Avant Productions

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Show #30 in the can

His Way Home has just completed the 30th show in the Avant Productions green screen studio. Show originator, Brett Miller, came looking for a production home for the show and found it at Avant’s video production studio. Since December 2011, the Avant crew has been producing a half-hour show for broadcast. Every few weeks a new show with an inspirational, positive message is recorded and produced in HD in the green screen studio. His Way Home airs regularly on The Learning Channel and public access in California and Tennessee.

October 3, 2013
Website Development…Orange County Style

When you think of Orange County, you think of the beach, perfect weather and…traffic! So, how does that interpret for the web? Beautiful visuals, inviting layout and…traffic. Every detail matters and, at AVANT, we make that our first priority. So, for our latest website that we built for Cloud-Townsend Resources, we got our inspiration from outside our green screen studio and into our surroundings….Orange County.

The Beach

Every website needs to be visually enticing. Don’t have this in place and your visitors will immediately leave, discredit your persona or consider your focus to be spam. The solution? The beach! We made sure the Cloud-Townsend Resources site was a place you might want to lay out your beach towel and spend some time looking around. A place that you feel relaxed. A place to discover new things. A place to connect with materials that helps you go back to life relaxed and inspired.

Perfect Weather

No one wants to be blasted by a blizzard when they open the front door. Same goes for a website. No website visitor wants to be shocked when they go to the homepage of a website that is based on relationship, self and spiritual help. They want to feel the warmth of the sun on their shoulders and not the boredom of being snowed in. The solution? Create perfect weather on a website. Great aesthetics. Warm and inviting colors. A layout where a visitor can get out and find what they are looking for.

Traffic

Orange County is known for it’s traffic. When the clock strikes 4pm, you’ll be spending at least an hour trying to travel 10 miles on the 405 freeway. Yet, for a website, traffic is embraced. Yes, embraced! Because what good is a website we build for a client if there is no one visiting it. The solution? Well, these are secrets we definitely won’t be giving away. But, rest assure that we make sure that all the websites we build begin with the key ingredients of search engine optimization right from the beginning. We make sure that your website is built in a way that invites Google to the party. We make sure that your website has the solid content that helps you get found.

Read more about how our Orange County style services can help your website on our Web Development and Social Media page.

February 3, 2013
Bringing Still Images to Life

It’s always fun when a client brings us a challenge: “We have 50 product images, 2 logos, 3 taglines and we need to sell our new product we are launching. Can you make us a video?” Of course we can! We love these kind of projects, and our latest one for the Jorg Gray Watch Collection is going to be a blast. Bring in some great stock music, load all the images up into our video editing system, and let the magic happen.

So how do you communicate a message of time? For our job, it’s always about telling a story. Show, don’t tell, is what we always remind ourselves. Whether it be a 30-second commercial for a local business, or a high definition production in our green screen video studio in Orange County – we are always helping our clients tell a story.

At AVANT, we approach every project with the same goal: to make our client’s message unforgettable. And we achieve this with out of the box ideas ideas, unstoppable creativity and two decades of technical expertise. After all, this is what we love to do – Create. Connect. Define!

So, whether it’s a new promotional video for your upcoming product, a new design and development for your company’s website, a green screen shoot in our video production facility, or a DVD duplication job we’ve got you covered.

Let us help create your project.

Let us help you connect with your audience.

Let us define your story!

January 11, 2012
Discovery Channel joins the AVANT Team

At AVANT, we’re not just about the latest corporate video or green screen studio shoot. We’re also take on the task of changing the world too. Yeah, no biggie!

So, now the entire nation with be impacted, not only with our video production services in Orange County, but also by the fruits of our labor of the last 10 years is this mission of making a difference. Our team were the ones behind the directing, producing, cinematography and editing of the award-winning documentary, Sin by Silence that will be airing on Investigation Discovery starting this October. We hope that you tune in and watch not only our experience and talents, but also the conviction of our hearts to help who are trapped behind prison walls.

Sin by Silence is a story of empowerment when all odds are stacked against you. A film that tells the story of women who are domestic violence’s worst-case scenarios: women who have killed their abusers. An incredible journey of women who overcame the odds to journey from victim to survivor.

78 million homes could be watching. Will you?

Make sure to tune into the broadcast and do something incredible for Domestic Violence Awareness Month! We spent many long days or many long years filming at the California Institution for Women, and we are thrilled that Discovery has joined us in airing our independent documentary to the masses. As Henry Schleiff, president of Investigation Discovery, stated, “We are proud to bring this powerful documentary to television, to share with audiences the harrowing stories of these women behind bars. Instead of fighting a system that does not fully comprehend the complexities of abuse, these courageous women chose to fight to change laws for battered women nationwide. Through the premiere of this documentary, we hope to extend their message and champion their crusade to stop the cycle of violence.”

So, make sure to tune in and check out ID’s page on the film and check your local listing for showtimes. It’s a story you will never forget…and you’ll be able to see the AVANT’s team on the end credits!

October 21, 2011
Our Orange County Video Studio

You need something filmed? We’ve got you covered; From our full, wall to floor green screen capabilities, to our full lighting grid and crew to help bring your vision to life! At AVANT, we know it’s important for your footage to look good. So, that is why our Orange County video studio is the perfect place for all of your video needs.

Just this last week, our clients at The Boxer Law Group needed some video work done for their website. They wanted to bring in the element of one of their lawyers doing a walk on, introduction for visitors coming to the site. So, the perfect solution was to head on over to our green screen facility, set up the teleprompter with their script, and shoot with our high definition cameras to capture a stunning image. But, the process didn’t stop there. We then took the footage into one of our advanced keying systems to remove the green screen, touch up with a little bit of color correction, and create a file that would bring the welcome message onto the website with a transparent background. We know, quite the undertaking.

But, at AVANT, we love going above and beyond the call of duty to make sure that our clients receive the best Orange County video production to help elevate their business to a high-tech level… especially when it’s all about first impressions.

September 27, 2011
Webinars at AVANT

Webinars are fast becoming the most exciting and and sought-after training experience on the internet. Why read a boring online tutorial or travel to a hotel for a seminar when you can log in and connect from home? Webinar participants don’t just watch your message, they engage in a dialogue with your presenters, asking questions online and taking polls with results presented in real-time.

At AVANT we recognize the power of webinars to deliver your message in a personal but powerful way. We have recently invested both time and capital in outfitting our Orange County green-screen studio and facility with everything you need to run a successful webinar.

Using a combination of well supported open-source video technologies and a suite of custom-developed web applets we have created a turn-key solution that embeds your webinar directly on your website with your own unique branding. No more logging into a faceless 3rd party website to view your message.

And with our unique green-screen setup we can produce not just a live webinar with impeccable audio and lighting, but also a full-quality DVD with professionally keyed virtual backgrounds after the fact. Host your live webinar one day and be delivery fully authored DVDs for sale of the same material less than a week later. After all, at AVANT we are all about bringing your more business and helping take things to the next level.

September 7, 2011
Green Screen Magic: Matching Reality to 3D

An important component of creating a convincing green-screen composite is careful selection and adjustment of the virtual background placed behind the talent. At AVANT we have perfected the art of matching 3D rendered imagery with live-action footage.

For a recent series of training videos for Cloud-Townsend Resources our creative team started with a 3D rendered virtual set and expertly blended it to match footage shot in our green-screen studio featuring Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend.

Because 3D renders are pure RGB images our first step was to adjust the black, white, and mid-tone values of the background to mimic the values of our HD video footage. Next we reduced the amount of color information in the background slightly and adjusted the hues to match the lighting setup.

The final steps for enhanced realism were to add grain and a vignette around the edges of the virtual set background to help recreate how a real room would have been photographed had it existed.

In the end all this attention to detail resulted in a seamless green-screen production that allows the Cloud Townsend audience to concentrate on the message and not the technology used to create it.

August 2, 2011
From Green Screen to Video Editing

Every week it seems like a new production is coming to AVANT’s Orange County video production facilities to utilize our green screen studio. From indie bands, to non-profits, to babies… yes, you read that right, babies! Recently, we shot the young cast of a new DVD series to help babies learn how to read. With ten kids under the ages of 2 scattered throughout our offices we had our hands full. Placed on the green screen floor, shot with our high-definition cameras, then transfer the footage to our Final Cut Pro edit system and immediately start piecing the scenes together.

Video editing is one thing, video editing green screen footage of excited kids is definitely another! We had our hands full once again, but it’s been a fun and rewarding process placing these adorable children in far-away places.

Take a look at Before and After…

June 13, 2011
Orange County Video…as in “The OC”
Yes, AVANT is located in Orange County, CA… or shall we say “The OC.” Yes, AVANT is located in the heart of Costa Mesa with a spacious green screen studio, multiple video editing bays, and high-definition cameras. Yet, what does it take to create Orange County video for clients that need a compelling project that is going to shine? Well, let’s break things down…
- At AVANT we Create.
- At AVANT we Connect.
- At AVANT we Define.
What does that mean for our clients who need a corporate video, non-profit fund raising video or website that can be easly found on Google or YouTube or widely shared on Facebook? Well, let’s break things down even further…

First, we love to Create. We take pride in our creativity. It’s always a thrill to take things to the next level and push ourselves to make sure when someone watches a video we produce they know that it was done by professionals who “know their stuff.”

Next, we Connect. If your video production or new web presence does not connect to your audience then, really, what’s the point? It’s all about building a bridge that connects your product or company to your client and market. It’s about creating a relationship through the screen, on the web, or on your smart phone in order to generate the results you are looking for. This definitely doesn’t just happen overnight. It takes strategy. It takes us connecting with your vision to help in connecting your audience.

Last, we shine with our ability to Define. Understanding your project, your vision, your needs in order to translate them into results that deliver your message and Connect with your audience. See, how things just came back full circle? Pretty clever, huh?
May 16, 2011
Video Production with a Purpose

We love our clients! From national broadcasts to corporate production and non-profit promos, we have a passion to bring our clients projects and ideas to life. Yet, it’s always great when a project comes to our Orange County video studio that helps us reflect on our own lives. That’s what we get with the monthly green screen shoots we do with Cloud Townsend Resources.

With their award-winning books about life, love and boundaries, we are now able to transform the latest Cloud Townsend content into a video series that streams on their website and social media pages. Yet, Dr. Cloud and Dr. Townsend are pros with co-writing over 20 books, totaling 5 million in sales. They know that their ability to reach an audience is crucial, so we had to transform our green screen studio into an opportunity for these clinical psychologists to be able to teach what they know so well, while also being able to personally connect with the viewer.

Our task to combine such intimate topics like grief, forgiveness, depression with the technology of our green screen production and clarity of high-definition video to stream on the web is crucial. We know this to be a key component to build a virtual relationship with an audience that needs to feel a connection for trust with such heavy topics. We love these types of shoots! It’s like our own therapy session in the studio, editing room and streaming on the web.

April 25, 2011