Promoting Sony’s newest video editing system, Crawford Post Prod uction produced two marketing videos to debut at the NAB 2001 Convention in Las Vegas this year. Crawford provided production, editorial, and audio services to display XPRI, the non-linear editing system with both standard and high definition capabilities. Ten weeks of production included creative concept, storyboards, editorial, design and effects, tape-to-tape color correction, audio mixing, sound design, and project management. Creat ivision’s Victor Monteagudo was brought in as Writer, Director, and Producer. Wide Open Film’s Brian Gurley acted as DP, shooting with a Sony F-900 CineAlta high def camera at 1080p/24, an HD video format.

Crawford’s VP Bill Thompson said, “We are pleased to play a key role in help ing Sony to market its brands and products to its consum ers. We want to continue building relationships with companies like Sony to help them meet all of their video communi cation objectives.”

Crawford is officially extending its relationship with Latin America Pay Television Service (LAPTV). Under the new contract, Crawford will provide network origination services for five years. Craw ford will also provide post production services for all the network’s interstitial programming. LAPTV’s networks include: Movie City East and West, Cinecanal East and West, Cinecanal 2, and The Film Zone. The relationship began in 1996.

Chip Stephenson has been promoted to Director of Oper ations for DVD, compression, and duplication services. He will manage duplication, traffic, fulfillment, DVD, compression, and optical disk departments. Before joining Crawford fifteen years ago, he worked as a Video tape Operator and Playback Technician for Movie Lab in New York. He spent more than 10 years at AME in Burbank, California as a Videotape Operator.