We pride ourselves on partnering with our clients to help create consistently outstanding film and video productions… with you.  Programs that motivate, entertain and drive viewers to action, whatever the project content, complexity or budget.

Of course, everyone says this.  Each of us in the post world claim to be the best editor or colorist around. In reality we are far from being the same.  Skill, experience, raw creative talent, the critical ability to listen and understand, equipment capabilities, and simple passion about the story we are telling varies as enormously as the final invoice and client satisfaction, when the dust settles.

For Chris the gig is about making the project exceptional and having the satisfaction of doing another outstanding job.

We view the business side of film and video post-production a little uniquely and we do things a little differently from the other guys – in a very good way.  We choose to operate at the highest end of the editing, color grading and finishing production spectrum in terms of quality and creativity but to remain affordable enough to be able to help the smallest startup film or arts project… putting profit and ego a very distant second to making films and videos that are wildly successful.

But, of course, at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter what anyone says about how amazing their work is, it’s the final program that has to actually walk the walk – and how the client feels after it has been shown that lets you talk the talk. That’s why this site is full of our work, like the Grateful Dead “Move Me Brightly” BluRay project above, not just marketing hype.

Hopefully the films speak for themselves and you like what you hear…

A few years ago I had to face up to the realities of a life in film, and give up Directing, DPing, and running a full time CLAi crew. This gave me the opportunity to fully concentrate on my favorite parts of the film process, color grading and editing from my Monterey studio. I was going to remove all of the other elements from this web site, but was asked to leave most of this content – I’m told it is a great reference for those coming into the business or starting on a production. So, to be totally clear, today I’m a resource for information on most anything, but I’m only a hands on wizard at editing and color grading!

You can contact Chris Layhe and CLAi in several ways, on any day of the week:

Use this automated email form and please do give us as much detail as possible so we can get back to you quickly and make some sort of sense!

Or get to enjoy Chris’ beautiful Manchester accent and call

831-419-7590