We pride ourselves on partnering with our clients to help create consistently outstanding film and video productions… together.  Programs that motivate, entertain and drive viewers to action, whatever the project content, complexity or budget.

Of course, everyone says this.  Each of us claim to be the best editor or colorist around. In reality we are far from being the same.  Skill, experience, raw creative talent, the critical ability to listen and understand, equipment capabilities, and simple passion about the story we are telling varies as enormously as the final invoice and client satisfaction does, when the dust settles.

For Chris the gig is purely about making the project exceptional and having the satisfaction of doing an outstanding job.

We view the business side of film and video post-production a little uniquely and we do things a little differently from the other guys – in a very good way.  We choose to operate at the highest end of the editing, color grading and finishing production spectrum in terms of quality and creativity but to remain affordable enough to help the smallest startup film or arts budget… putting profit and ego a very distant second to making great films and videos that are wildly successful.

But, of course, at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter what anyone says about how amazing their work is, it’s the final program that has to actually walk the walk – and how the client feels after it has been shown that lets you talk the talk. That’s why this site is full of our work of every type, like this Grateful Dead film. Hopefully it speaks for itself and you like what you hear…

A few years ago I (Chris) had one or two health problems, which resulted in me having to give up Directing, DPing, providing the complete production package to clients and having a full time CLAi crew. This was hard, but it gave me the chance to concentrate on my favorite parts of the film process, color grading and editing, from my Monterey studio (of course, I’m still able to consult on everything else as part of the CLAi package). I was asked to leave most of this web site content as it was, because I’m told it is a great reference for those coming into the business or starting on a production. It talks about lots of stuff… however, to be totally clear, today I’m a resource for information on most anything, but I’m only a hands on wizard at editing and color grading!

You can contact Chris Layhe and CLAi in several ways, on any day of the week:

Use this automated email form and please do give us as much detail as possible so we can get back to you quickly and make some sort of sense!

Or get to enjoy Chris’ beautiful Manchester accent and call

831-419-7590