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.

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

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

Northland Business Owner Receives Gladstone Chamber Award & Clay County Women’s Exchange Nomination to their Board of Directors:

Beyond Wow Video Services, LLC located in the Northland, received Gladstone Chamber of Commerce’s award for Business of the Year. This award was presented to Steve & Joy Lamas of Beyond Wow Video Services, LLC. on Friday evening, December 5^th @ the Chamber’s annual dinner & awards ceremony held at Staley Farms.

A member of the Association of Video Professionals (AVP), a nationwide network of professional video studio owners, Beyond Wow Video Services, LLC owner, Joy Lamas, serves on their Board of Directors. Recently, Lamas was elected to serve locally on the Board of Directors for the Clay County Women’s Exchange where she will select area speakers for this Northland women’s organization’s monthly meetings.

Beyond Wow Video Services, LLC works with both corporate & consumer level clients to create projects such as corporate marketing videos, photo slideshows for

Events, and film/photo/slide transfers to DVD. Beyond Wow Video Services, LLC located in the Northland, has been serving the Kansas City area for the past 4 years & has received National recognition for their video projects.

Contact Information:

Contact:      Joy Lamas

Telephone:  816-436-9691                                               

E-mail:       joy@beyondwowvideo.com

We would like to welcome Emmett Pyatt of Chesterfield Video Services to the AVP family. Emmett runs his successful studio out of Chesterfield, MO, which is located just west of St. Louis. We are excited about the knowledge, experience, and enthusiasm Emmett brings with him. Please join the management team in welcoming him to the group. Emmett can be reached at 636.273.9355. His email address ischesterfieldvideo@earthlink.net and his website is www.chesterfieldvideo.com. We were also pleased to learn that he plans to attend the AVP conference this February in San Francisco. We will all get a chance to meet him in person and exchange ideas.