Life goes by so fast and you've tried to capture those precious moments on video? Now you've hours of raw footage: your baby's growing into a child, then a teenager, then an adult. And you're thinking of a nostalgic future time when you could look at all the highlights back? Perhaps a time when the baby is an adult and they can look back at your footage? Well now maybe the best time to produce it.

From babies to children to teenagers to adults you probably know roughly where all those video 'highlights' are. You've searched through the baby name books. You've shot video of the pregnancy, his homecoming, his first bath time, his baptism, his birthday, him in the crèche, his first steps, his first words, his leaving for primary school, your family holidays in the UK and abroad? And all the time your parents and grandparents have been there with you and your children. But watching a lifetime of raw video tapes to find and enjoy only those highlights seems pretty daunting?

Thinking of a superb anniversary present for your partner or parents?

They'll love this. It's highly personal and highly creative … and quite probably long overdue:

Whether it's your babies first year, a biopic of your sons life, edit all the video footage together into a superb 'highlights' video complete with still photographs, a video montage, titles, and the music beds of your choice. Then compress the video footage for use on DVD, CD ROM, or to stream from a website.

Hello, my name is Quint Boa and Shootyou (www.shootyou.co.uk) is our London (UK) based video production company. As you'll see from our website we're former BBC television staff who shoot, edit and compress video footage. We specialise in producing video for businesses in London and the UK.

On a personal note, my partner Karen is about to have our first baby (Jan 2003) and like many proud parents I'm going to take great pleasure in filming it's life from birth onwards. Speaking to the National Childbirth Trust (NCT), and various friends who have children, I've realised there are many parents who've shot video which they'll never enjoy because there's simply too much of it.

More worryingly the technology to play back some formats is becoming obsolete and -worst of all- the footage itself may be gradually deteriorating. We offer a service to capture those moments and create a broadcast quality production of them for parents -and the child themselves to enjoy- for a lifetime.

Technically how would our video production occur?

While the cost of video editing has tumbled, the speed of video production has increased. You no longer require tens of thousands of pounds of edit suite, just a personable video editor who knows what they're doing. Once you're happy the final video could be compressed onto DVD: a very high quality format which will not deteriorate.

DVD is an international format and, because they're so lightweight, the cost of postage is minimal.

Practically how would the video production happen?

The more material you can gather together for the edit the quicker we can work together. So you'll need to provide us with:

· a rough idea of 'in points' and 'out points' on your videos
· any still photographs you want to include
· any music you require preferably on CD ROM
· a voice over script if you're going to narrate the video
· any of the material you want included e.g. titles.

You then pop around to our office sit alongside the editor and decide what video footage of your babies / children / teenagers / adults you want to go where. This can be as creative, as personalised and as long as you like. We'll be happy to pop in suggestions along the way.

How much will this cost?

For businesses we charge £70.00 per hour to edit and £10.00 per minute of video to compress. However we'll offer a capped POA on each project for individuals.

But roughly though?

If your video production is ten minutes long and you have all your material with you, it should take about a 9 hour day. But it all depends on the number of edit points, e.g. if you want a narrated montage or just several clips put together. Again, the project will be capped and we're completely transparent with our costs.

There is a 10% discount for National Childbirth Trust (NCT)
http://www.nctpregnancyandbabycare.com  supporters  because The National Childbirth Trust (NCT) is a great organisation and we've found to be very helpful during our time with them.

(N.B. The only additional fee may be the transfer your existing footage to Mini DV format, but I strongly recommend you do that as a practical precaution in any case.)

To find out more or to see examples of what we can produce contact me on the numbers below:

Contact name: Quint Boa
300 Kings Rd
Kingston Surrey
KT2 5JL
020 8546 5190
quint@shootyou.co.uk