Avant Productions

Tag: post-production

  • 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.

  • Voice Overs Done Right

    Voice Overs Done Right

    At AVANT we pride ourselves on the quality of our work and the care and attention we give to every project. No where is this more evident than in our meticulous handling of voice over sessions.

    Recently we recorded voice-overs as part of an ongoing project for a children’s educational DVD series. The producers wanted a variety of voices to be represented, male and female, old and young. How young you ask? Joining our regular voice-over talent pool was 9-year-old Olivia, performing her first-ever professional voice-over session.

    Recording such a young actor is about the same as recording an adult. Careful microphone placement produces a naturalist sound and our fully isolated “room-within-a-room” voice over booth does the rest. That and some patient direction from the control room nearby.

    Our facility was originally built in the mid 1970’s as a production facility for live television programs and we at AVANT have benefited from the amazing room design and construction techniques that were used back then. Our sound room literally “floats” inside the surrounding building, isolated from the surrounding outer walls, greatly reduced sounds that would be transmitted from outside.

    Add to this the latest in digital recording technology and computer-based digital audio workstations and you’ll see why we take voice-over recording to the next level. At AVANT we’ll make you sound fantastic, whether you’re 9 or 99.

  • Orange County Video…as in “The OC”

    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?

  • The Creative Process of Video Editing

    The Creative Process of Video Editing

    Everyone with a video project they want to bring to life wants to gain in-depth insight into the creative process of post-production – creating polished transitions, fix screen direction errors, edit multi-camera high-definition projects, create fantastic effects and graphics, use filters creatively and composite like a pro.

    What makes for great video production is often the mostly invisible flow of time and mood. So, the question becomes, what do you want your audience to take away after seeing your non-profit fund raising video, web video or latest corporate training video. Do you want them to be motivated to action? Do you want them to be motivated to click “buy now”? Do you want them to be motivated to open their wallets to donate? Videos can help inspire a multitude of things, yet without good video editing all that we just mentioned is irrelevant.

    The concept of video editing is how humans process the moving image…well rather, how you manipulate humans to process those moving images. Because there are many factors that come into play – cutting a clip on action, on emotion, on a musical beat, adding color to the image, taking away color, adding sounds effects, adding an original score of song. Video editing has countless elements and factors to consider to really bring a project to life.

    At AVANT, we take this task very seriously. We take every single one of our client’s projects seriously. We’re in the heart of Orange County with our four editing bays in Avid Media Composer or Final Cut Pro, along with our audio mastering suite and on-location sound booth, we can take your project from script to DVD with no problem. Or concept to web download. Or pictures to website. You get the picture!