Organization Holds Annual Conference Offering Experienced Training and Networking Opportunities.

GULF BREEZE, FL—October 1, 2009 — The Association of Video Professionals is pleased to announce that registration is now open for their 5th Annual Conference & Training Workshop. The conference will be held in sunny Los Angeles, California January 28th-30th, 2010 at the Radisson Hotel, LAX.
Bringing together the very best video educators, trainers, and professionals in the industry, AVP’s annual conference offers great training and opportunities to network and build relationships (and sometimes partnerships) with other professionals that continue years beyond the conference. With three days of training and over 18 different sessions on topics from lighting and green screen techniques, to Final Cut Pro shortcuts, to expert techniques on creating smooth and crisp web videos, you are sure to find what you are looking for.
“We are excited to have leaders in the industry heading up our training sessions including Larry Jordan, Philip Hodgetts, Mark Spencer, Bruce Nazarian, Frank Rohmer and more” said Dave Mungai, Executive Director of AVP. “Based on survey results from the attendees, they rated the overall value of the conference to their businesses at 4.8 out of 5! I think we achieve our goal of providing timely, pertinent training that our members can take home and put to use in their businesses right away.”
Information and registration is available online at www.aovpros.com/conference. Take advantage of their early bird discount by registering by October 31, 2009 and receive a $100 savings on the conference.
About the Association of Video Professionals:
The Association of Video Professionals (AVP) was founded in 2006 by a group of video studio owners who saw the need to help video companies grow their business. AVP was built from the ground up by it’s members and led by a Board of Directors whose location is throughout the country. For more information on AVP, please visit us online at www.aovpros.com

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(Puyallup, WA) McKenna Video Services has been awarded a 2009 Pegasus Award for a 30-minute wedding video produced for a local couple. The Pegasus Awards are the video industry’s premier competition for recognition of exemplary work produced by non-broadcast video professionals. This is the first Pegasus Award for McKenna.

“Kelsey and Lane’s Wedding Ceremony” was recognized for its outstanding production quality in the Wedding Ceremony Coverage category of Special Event Video. The production was assessed by a distinguished panel of judges representing industry professionals from around the country. The video was honored with a prestigious Pegasus Award of Honor.

This nomination follows another nomination MVS received for the Best of Western Washington Wedding Videographer.

Founded in 2005, McKenna Video Services has been providing quality video production services to many individuals and small business in the greater Puget Sound Region.

For more information on McKenna Video Services, visit their websites at www.mckennavideo.com or www.mvsweddings.com or call 253-539-3438.

This month, we are launching a promotional campaign entitled: “Win a FREE wedding video from FindAVideoProfessional.com”. Participants will register on Win A Free Wedding Video website for the contest, and one lucky winner will be selected to receive a FREE wedding video (up to a $1000 value), shot and produced by one of our video professionals listed on the FindAVideoProfessional.com directory.

Here’s where you can benefit.

FindAVideoProfessional.com will pay $1000 to one video professional - bronze level or higher, who is located near the winner and willing to provide this service.

If you have been considering upgrading to a paid level listing to receive all the other benefits, this may be your reason to do so. You can log in and upgrade here

Bonus Offer: If you upgrade your free listing before August 15, 2009 FindAVideoProfessional.com will move your listing up one level. For example, buy a one year silver level listing, and you will receive a gold level upgrade FREE.

There is no better time to join the Find A Video Professionals Directory and expose your video company to thousands of consumers searching for video professionals.

Talks underway to develop a strategic alliance between The Association of Video Professionals and ShoppingCenterVideo.com

May 12th, 2009, Miami Florida: ShoppingCenterVideo.com and The Association of Video Professionals (aovpros.com) recently entered discussions to develop an alliance that would benefit both organizations and more importantly, provide better service to their end customers.
ShoppingCenterVideo.com has quickly become a leader in the Shopping Center Marketing Industry. They are rapidly changing the shopping center industry by providing developers, brokers, appraisers, leasing agents, landlords and tenants with a specialized and user-friendly platform to market their properties.
One of the valuable services ShoppingCenterVideo.com provides their customers is the ability to post videos of the properties to their site so perspective investors can view and evaluate the shopping center prior to booking a costly trip. That’s where the Association of Video Professionals (AVP) come in.

AVP is a Nation Wide Network of Independently owned Professional Video Production and Service companies. They currently have listings in all 50 states through their findavideoprofessional.com directory with over 1000 plus participants and growing every week. The primary mission of AVP is to help its members succeed by driving qualified sales leads to them.

“I am excited about the potential benefits this partnership could produce for both companies” says Dave Mungai, Executive Director for AVP. “ShoppingCenterVideo.com has a need to produce quality videos for it’s customers with a quick turn-around. Through our national network, we can identify and book a video professional that meets those requirements resulting in a win-win for everyone involved”.

“We are excited to be in discussions with AVP because it gives us the ability to produce quality shopping center videos for our clients in cities on an as needed basis.” says Charles Silver, President for ShoppingCenterVideo.com
This is just one more example where business to business alliances can help strengthen growing companies and provide better value in the marketplace. Additional announcements will be made as the details of the program are worked out.

For more information on ShoppingCenterVideo.com contact Charles Silver, President @ 954.536.1367 or visit their website – www.ShoppingCenterVideo.com

For more information on The Association of Video Professionals contact Dave Mungai, Executive Director @ 850 934-9907, or visit their websites – www.aovpros.com & www.findavideoprofessional.com

American Guild of Court Videographers

Casper, WY: The American Guild of Court Videographers is proud to announce the certification of professional videographer Jeffrey T. DeMello, owner of Stockton Legal Video Services, a division of DeMello Video & Photo Services LLC, located in Stockton, California as a “Certified Court Video Specialist” (CCVS) after having successfully completing all the requirements of the AGCV for certification as a forensic videographer.

The AGCV is the only organization in the United States that is training and certifying professional videographers in all phases of legal video. As a “Fellow” in good standing in the AGCV, Mr. DeMello becomes one of a very few in the nation allowed to promote and advertise their expertise in the field of legal video using the official logo and certification provided by the AGCV.

The AGCV training includes preparing its members in meeting all the stipulations of the Federal Rule 30 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the Federal Rules of Evidence in regard to the video taping of depositions, producing day-in-the-life and settlement documentaries, taping scenes of crimes and incidents, showing video evidence of damages, video recording mock trials, the will execution ceremony, construction surveys and actually displaying the video evidence in the courtroom during trial.

The certification provided by the AGCV is limited to “professional videographers” as the AGCV is not in the business of training amateurs on the operation of a video camera. To meet the requirements of the rapidly changing technology, each certified member is required to stay abreast of the profession by completing additional continuing education.

To be certified as an expert in this exciting and exacting legal video profession is indeed a great accomplishment and we at AVP extend our congratulations to Jeff.

To learn more, visit: www.stocktonlegalvideo.com or www.demellovideo.com

Ran across the following site the other day when looking to add some custom shapes to my Photoshop library.

www.ladyoak.com

This is a fantastic site with hundreds of free shape libraries, layer styles, gradients, and even free tutorials. After the AVP training session in February on creating better DVD Studio Pro menu’s with Motion and Photoshop, I’ve been doing more with button overlays and custom menu’s. I was looking for more ideas on creative button’s and this site certainly filled that bill. Content is totally free. Check it out!

Steven Volk of Volk Video Services in Birmingham, MI was recently featured in the local spotlight section of the Detroit News. Volk Video Services is quickly becoming one of the leading providers of both Video Production and Video transfer services in the Birmingham Michigan and surrounding areas.

Steven Volk is also a Founding Member of the Association of Video Professionals (www.aovpros.com), and currently sits on it’s board of directors.

To see the full article click here.

The Association of Video Professionals just completed their Winter 2009 Member conference and training in Orlando Florida. “This was probably the best conference & training event we’ve had so far”, stated Dave Mungai, Executive Director for the association. “Based on survey results from the attendees, they rated the overall value of the conference to their businesses at 4.8 out of 5! Although there is always room for improvement, I think we achieved our goal of providing timely, pertinent training that our members could take home and put to use in their businesses right away”

Here are just a couple of comments from attendees….

“In my opinion this was the best conference I’ve ever been to regardless of association - great location/facility, great instructors, cool shirt favor, and everything ran very smoothly. I know I speak for everyone when I say we appreciate all the association does”

-   –Bill Stilson, Stilson Video Services, Woodmere, OH.

“I am 100% confident that I could not have managed this weeks work without having attended the recent AVP conference. One day after the training I had thrown my self into the deep end of a big job and I was so so happy I had taken the sound track class and the lighting class last week.  I shot in a factory and followed a money tip (for me) from Dane to capture an ambient noise print before rolling the talent.  Well this plant was full of loud and varies noises so first thing I did when I walked in was go to each spot of the bottling lines and shoot a noise sample.  Now I can remove that easily from my editing piece using the techniques Larry Jordan taught!! Thank the Lord for AVP!”

          –Steven Volk, Volk Video Services, Birmingham, MI

This conference featured training on production lighting and composition by 25 year broadcast veteran and documentarian J. Dane MacKendrick (www.danedv.biz). Final Cut & Soundtrack Pro training from FCP Guru Larry Jordan (www.larryjordan.biz), Motion & DVD Studio Pro training by Klark Perez and Mary Plummer, both Apple Certified Master trainers and authors of the Apple DVDSP & Motion Training manuals (www.invisiondigital.com), Also featured was Ron Sukenick (www.ronsukenick.com) who taught a class on low cost/no cost marketing techniques and also delivered a key note speech on growing your business in a down economy.

In addition to the great training provided, members also enjoyed many social benefits at the conference. “Our members are spread across the country from California to New York. We meet just twice a year so typically communication between members is done via our forum or over the phone” says Mungai. “One of the biggest benefits of these conferences is the opportunity to share ideas and interact with each other face to face”.

We would like to welcome Bill Lagno and Lagno Video Services to AVP. Bill started Lagno Video Services in late 2002 with help from a company called Home Video Studio, inc. He started his business part time but within 8 months was doing enough business that he decided to quit his “day job” with Corporate America and go full time. He never looked back and has continued to grow his successful video business over the last 5 plus years.

Lagno Video Services offers a wide range of video related services. On the production side, Lagno Video Services produces TV commercials, corporate videos, training videos,  and product DVD’s. They work out of a state-of-the-art digital video studio with 3 Mac based editing suites, a 4 bay DVD center that is designed for tape transfer and is HD ready. They even offer media produced on Blu-ray discs. They also perform film transfer of sound or silent formats of 8mm, Super8mm & 16mm. They can transfer virtually any format of video tape to DVD including 8mm, VHS, VHS-C, U-Matic, MiniDV, Beta SP, and Betamax. On the Audio side, they can transfer your cassette tapes, ¼ reel to reel, vinyl records, and even 8track tapes!!

To learn more about Lagno Video Services visit their website at www.lagnovideo.com. You can also contact them Directly by phone @ 201 802-1802, or send them an email to lagno-video@att.net