editspecialists.com the one stop shop for postproduction

editspecialists.com is a one stop shop for postproduction of features, documentaries, commercials, industrials, music videos and TV shows.

We take care of everything you need to get a project finished, from helping you decide what format to shoot on, to finding an editor, composer, sound designer, conforming and color correcting in HD or SD, motion graphics, title design, compositing, visual effects, 3D animation and DVD authoring.
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You talk to us instead of talking to different people at multiple companies. You tell us how much money & time you want to spend, then we provide you with a realistic schedule for your postproduction & delivery.
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Want to edit yourself? We have taught 5 directors editing from scratch. They went on to win awards and are still making films. Our assistants have become professional editors too, and they work all over town.

Need investors? We've been very successful at editing pilots that attracted funding. Our trailer for "peace by peace" helped them raise money to finish their documentary and secure the deal with PBS. The doc had its world premiere 10/30/03 at the United Nations.
One client, John-Luke Montias, has seen his first feature "Bobby G Can't Swim" appear in theaters all over the world. The film just played in Los Angeles. (review la-times)

Do you have a project you need help with? Are you stuck with an error message late at night? Or you don't know what digitize settings to choose?
Editspecialists offers over-the-phone consulting to help keep your project moving forward. Phone consulting is billed at $75.00 per hour with a one-hour minimum.

Looking to get up to speed quickly in Final Cut Pro or AVID x-press DV? Editspecialists offers on-site training to individuals or groups. Training can be conveniently scheduled to take place in offices, schools, and private homes. Additionally, custom curricula can be created to address specific production needs and client requirements.

Filmstudents: our vendors are student friendly. Talk to them direct to get extra discounts.

CLIENTS
Directors:

Andrew Berends
Michael Blackwood
Stephanie Capparell
Ryan Deussing
Stephen Earnhart
Debra Eisenstadt
Kim Fields
Michael Laurence
John-Luke Montias
Ton Vriens
Jeff Winner
Tom Zuber
Summer-joy Main
Louie DeVito

Companies:

Thirteen
Ogilvy & Mather
Gotham Pictures
Michael Blackwood Films Inc.
Euro Vision
Comedy Central
Richter Productions
SpikeTV
Insight Research Group

Your Editspecialists are:

Michiel Pilgram (picture/sound editor, post production producer)
Andrew Berends (picture editor, producer, director)
Katie Mantell (picture editor, post production producer)
Jeff Winner (picture editor)
Bern Hayden (supervising sound editor, sound designer)
Gregory L. Speed (picture editor)
Sally Rowe (script supervisor)
Nelson Nudd (sound designer/editor)
Chen Harpaz (sound editor/mixer)
John Davis (composer/sound designer/mixer)
Jami Boud (graphic designer, motion graphics, After Effects)
Tim Brandwijk (composer/sound designer)
Ed Tomney (composer)
Marcelo Zarvos (composer)
Franky DiDonato (composer)
Laura Raimondo (Avid Editor Avid Master Certification Feb. 2001)

VENDORS:

Dackl (sound recording, editing, mixing)
Broadway sound (sound recording, editing, mixing)
Broadway video (video finishing SD & HD, duplication)
Downtown avid (finalcut & avid rentals)
Orbit digital (AVID + Symphonty rentals)
City Lights Media Group (AVID & Symphony rentals)
City sound (sound/music recording, editing, mixing)
Sounddimensions (sound recording, editing, mixing)
Vertigopower (sound recording, editing, mixing)
MPE (avid rentals from offline AVBV systems to symphony's networked with unity)
DIVA edit (avid rentals)
Goldcrest post (off & online avid editing, sound mixing, symphony, unity, digibeta)
Red car (avid, smoke editing, flame compositing hi-end commercial shop)
Digit audio Inc. (sound recording, editing, mixing)
Glue editing & design (color correction on line editing symphony)
Earthvideo (steadycam, finalcut online)
Outpost Digital (final cut rentals off & on-line)
One River Media (final cut off & on-line, visual effects, dvd authoring)
Guarsh (final cut rentals, sound mixing, music recording, dvd/cd mastering)
Diskmakers (DVD and CD duplication/replication, production)
Offhollywood Digital (DVD authoring, SD & HD finishing, color correction)
Bootstrap Productions (AVID, FCP rentals, DVD authoring)
Hello world communications (DVD authoring, AVID, FCP editing & finishing, duplication & standards conversion)
GRS Systems (Alchemist Platinum, the best standards converter, MPEG encoding, duplication)
Heavy light digital (optical printing, visual effects, and title design)
Audio plus Video International (DVD authoring ,standards conversion, SD & HD finishing, Soundmixing)
Technicolor New York (film dailies, prints, film to tape, tape to film)
DuArt (film dailies, prints, film to tape, tape to film, negative matching)
Metropolis Film Lab (optical and digital effects)
Moving Images (color correction, film>tape transfers, dailies, smoke editing , flame compositing)
Lablink (film dailies, prints)

ON-LINE TRAINING, TUTORIALS
Ripple Training(Final Cut Pro, Shake, LiveType, Soundtrack, DVD Studio Pro 2)
Total Training (InDesign, Illustrator, LiveMotion, GoLive, Premiere, After Effects)
Russell Brown (Photoshop CS)

LINKS
cybermotion (website of after effects guru's Trish & Chris Meyer whose books "Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects are considered by many to be the bible in its field)
kenstone.net (a Final Cut Pro guru who has the best articles on the web)
Benjamin Hershleder's AVID tips & tricks (fantastic advice help and more)
zerocut.com (an AVID guru with great independent articles and tips)
avid.com (the user forums are very useful to get new ideas or to figure out problems)
apple.com (stay up to date with the latest developments/problems with your favorite program)
imdb.com (best resume's on the web, use it to figure out if a person that you want to hire, is for real)
24p.com (24p.com consulting service for film and HD based productions for TV and theatrical release)
digitalpostproduction.com (a terrific resource with lots of articles & links)
Icon Magazine (film & video & postproduction magazine)

Links to independent, "art," and foreign language film distributors