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.

Everyone says this.  Each of us 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.

But 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 actual work – like the Grateful Dead “Move Me Brightly” project below and the film clips throughout this site. Hopefully these pieces speak for themselves and you like what you hear…

Every gig is about making the project exceptional and having the satisfaction of doing an outstanding job, and we are 110% there… but more than that – 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 what seems to be a very good way for our clients. We choose to operate at the highest end of the editing, color grading and finishing production spectrum in terms of equipment, quality and creativity, while still remaining affordable enough to create a wildly successful full feature film or help out the smallest startup film or arts project mini-budget… putting profit and ego a very distant second to our love of what we do, making great films and videos.

A few years ago I had to face up to some of the realities of a life in film and what it takes out of you. I had to give up directing, shooting, and running a full time CLAi crew. This hard right turn gave me the opportunity to fully concentrate on what have always been my favorite parts of the film process, color grading and editing in my Monterey studio. (NB. this web site does still talk about all of these production elements as a guide to what is involved in a full production, but we no longer do it all)

So, to be totally clear… today I’m a resource 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:

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831-419-7590