About Us

Artifact Video specializes in an artful approach to factual visual storytelling.

With experience in multi-media approaches to journalism, we relish the opportunity to experiment with new forms, from podcasting to virtual reality, and understand the the power of a compelling, coherent, and captivating story is what really will get information across. We are available for short-term production support up to becoming an integral member of your production team. Let us bring our award-winning experience to your latest project and help make it a success.

Our Partners

Based in Berkeley, partners everywhere.

DAVID RITSHER

Creative Director

Services

We are ready to help at any stage of your project. We prefer to be involved from the beginning because decisions made in preproduction shape whether a film can be edited efficiently. It is better to plan together to get the elements to tell the story you want than to try to "fix it in post." If your project contains archival materials we can digitze almost any format and perform frame-rate conversions and up-scaling. We can help with project organization, digitizing, sizzle reels, rough cuts, to color correction and finishing. Once your project is complete, let us help you archive it to shelf-stable formats for posterity.

From graphics to specially composed music, we can connect you with the right people and resources for your budget. We specialize in current events and documentary style features but are available for other projects as well.

DOCUMENTARY
CONSULTATION

Pre-Production Planning

We can help you find the story arc to connect your characters and keep an audience engaged. It works for podcasts too.

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VIDEO
EDITING

Avid, Premiere, Resolve, FCP, AE

We are comfortable with all of the major edit platforms and can help you pick what is right for your project.

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DIGITIZING
& ARCHIVING

Preseve Valuable Footage

Hard drives die and tapes can degrade with time. We can help whether your original is on film, VHS, BetaSP or virtually any format.

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FORMAT
CONVERSIONS

All Global Standards

PAL or NTSC, SD to UHD, 23.98 to 60p and anything in between, we can help generate a smooth conversion into the format you need.

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Professional Production Management

32

Years of Editing

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Late Deliveries

24+

Award-Winning Projects

25

Years Coding Content

133

Global Stories

145

Projects Delivered

Contact

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