Robert Penn productions' mission is to provide clients with digital content that attracts an audience and demands attention. We make dynamic videos for corporate, educational, creative and personal use.

Robert Penn productions approaches each assignment with one objective: get superior quality footage on tape. As Director, Robert Penn assembles the best available crew for each project. The company brings the same professional standards and expertise to video-based education, corporate meetings, event documentation, news, editorial, short films, feature narrative and documentary films, and live performances.

Robert Penn productions uses state of the art equipment: Sony digital cameras record to DVCAM broadcast tape, as well as mini-DV. Panasonic HD cameras record multiple formats to P2, tape and portable hard drive, providing the highest quality video images for your project. Crisp professional audio is captured with field mixers and an assortment of mono and stereo microphones designed for recording interviews, panel discussions, reality shoots, scripted dialogue, performance, live music and film scores. The company owns on-camera and studio lights, offering a leg up on many companies that must build extensive equipment rental into the cost of production. Robert Penn productions will only rent supplementary gear and studio space for large or complex assignments.

Editing is expertly done on Apple computers in Robert Penn productions post-production facility in lower Manhattan. The facility is equipped with Firewire, analog and SDI input/outputs. Final Cut Studio software assures an integrated workflow from media capture to color correction and audio remix. Robert Penn maintains excellent working relations with specialists, such as colorists, sound editors, animators and graphic artists, and engages their services as needed.

Robert Penn productions delivers most completed projects on DVD, since DVD remains the most widely used medium for digital film distribution. Each standard disc holds up to two hours of edited footage. The final edit of digital content is exported to DVD Studio Pro. The company’s comprehensive DVD design capabilities range from burning “raw” footage onto DVDs to creating DVDs that utilize menus and sub-menus that allow viewers to randomly access specific clips and sub-clips. Robert Penn productions can supply a few DVD copies of a client’s dance concert for company and fundraising use or more than 20,000 DVD duplicates of an educational film or promotional film for public distribution, depending on client needs.

Using Quick Time Conversion, Cleaner 6.5 and other software, Robert Penn productions prepares content for servers, websites, blogs, Internet streaming and FTP downloads. Each item for the Internet is customized to suit the client’s technical requirements, such as, aspect ratio, dimensions, resolution, bandwidth and overall file size. FTP downloads facilitate remote collaborations, allowing clients and creative staff to view and comment upon in-progress versions of each project.

Your project can start with raw footage shot by our company or your own footage provided on one of many video sources, VHS, Beta SP, mini-DV or DVCAM. No matter what you bring with you, whether it’s footage or simply an idea, Robert Penn productions will walk you through each project from inception to completion.