The shoot is where the success of most projects is determined... and we take it very seriously. We run our own Cinealta HDCam Sony HDW-F900 and HDW-700A and DVCPro50 Progressive SD Panasonic SDX-900 “broadcast plus” camera outfits for studio and location use - with a full complement of audio, lighting and gaffer equipment. We can also shoot on DVCProHD, Betacam SP or any other format that you might prefer, NTSC or PAL, with a couple of calls... Chris Layhe is our house director, and we bring in the best freelance personnel available as crew and talent on each project to ensure that we have exactly the right skills in the right positions, making certain that everything goes smoothly and professionally wherever we may be shooting. Why this very different way of working? Well, it’s simple. By owning the equipment we control quality, reliability and availability, but we then make sure that each crew member is hand picked for each project - so we don’t employ the world’s greatest ballet cameraman and also have him try to shoot skiing, cookery and CEO interviews!


Chris Layhe Associates, Inc. is a video production company that has been producing award winning video programs for business and broadcast for over twenty five years. We are an independent company dedicated to producing high quality and cost effective marketing, advertising, communications, education, PR and broadcast documentary programs.

Santa Cruz, on the San Francisco Bay, California is our home, but our project work has taken us around the world to get the right footage, and so as well as our San Francisco base we have a presence in Tampa Bay and London to facilitate this.

Our services include video production including project management, concept and script writing, directing, design, single and multi-camera video shooting HDCam on Sony HDW-F900 and Sony HDW-700A Cameras, DVCPro50 on Panasonic AJ-SDX900 and HDV on Sony HVR1U videography, sound, lighting and gaffer services, 2D and 3D animation and digital compositing, video editing and post-production Final Cut Pro HD and Avid digital video editing on HDCam, DVCProHD, DVCPro50, Betacam SP, graphics creation and sound design and audio production, and DVD authoring Scenarist interactive DVD or CD-ROM production, encoding and video compression for DVD, CD, or Web.

Chris Layhe Associates Inc. : award winning corporate and broadcast video production. San Francisco. Tampa Bay. London...
design. write. shoot. animate. edit. author. direct. produce