The programs CLAi make provide unique communication solutions - with the international style and bigger-than-California perspective of an established English company that migrated to the United States fourteen years ago playing a big part in separating our projects from the rest of the pack.

We produce across a wide range of subject areas with a deep understanding of targeted storytelling; a formidable arsenal of top of the line in-house HD and SD equipment; a national and worldwide production capability; and the creative and technical flexibility to produce spectacular results on any type of project while consistently delivering on time and on budget, all the way from concept to final delivery media.

The success of our work is a reflection of the way we work, which is different, deliberate and simple... we listen, we question, we listen again and then we work with you to produce outstanding projects.


Chris Layhe Associates, Inc. is a video production company that has been producing award winning video programs for business and broadcast for over twenty five years. We are an independent company dedicated to producing high quality and cost effective marketing, advertising, communications, education, PR and broadcast documentary programs.

Santa Cruz, on the San Francisco Bay, California is our home, but our project work has taken us around the world to get the right footage, and so as well as our San Francisco base we have a presence in Tampa Bay and London to facilitate this.

Our services include video production including project management, concept and script writing, directing, design, single and multi-camera video shooting HDCam on Sony HDW-F900 and Sony HDW-700A Cameras, DVCPro50 on Panasonic AJ-SDX900 and HDV on Sony HVR1U videography, sound, lighting and gaffer services, 2D and 3D animation and digital compositing, video editing and post-production Final Cut Pro HD and Avid digital video editing on HDCam, DVCProHD, DVCPro50, Betacam SP, graphics creation and sound design and audio production, and DVD authoring Scenarist interactive DVD or CD-ROM production, encoding and video compression for DVD, CD, or Web.

Chris Layhe Associates Inc. : award winning corporate and broadcast video production. San Francisco. Tampa Bay. London...
design. write. shoot. animate. edit. author. direct. produce