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LFC Studio
Video Documentation

Video and Multimedia Compilations

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LFC Studio
We use multi-processor digital video cameras to achieve an outstanding film-like look. The zoom shotgun microphones are used to pick up the ambient sounds. Our editing is completed on Adobe Premiere, a friendly yet sophisticated editing software. DVDs and MPEG-4 Apple iPod Video files are processed right here in our office, which means you get your project much faster.

Nessie - one of the ICF search dogs helped to produce a TV commercial promoting a scientific magazine "Junior 21" for young readers in the Czech Republic.

Just click the PLAY button on video console and have fun with Nessie and the kids...


Video viewer for Streaming Video Preview
You can view streaming video with Adobe Flash Player. This plug-in is widely available across several platforms and browsers. If you don't have a Flash Player plug-in installed on your computer, you can download it from the Adobe website

A word about DVD media
A production technology in commercial DVD industry is way different than the technology the personal computers use to write/burn DVD discs. That is the reason why commercial movie discs play well on all DVD players, no matter how good or how old these DVD players are. On the contrary, computer generated DVDs may have problems, especially when played on the older players.

A word about MPEG-4
The video files for mobile devices may be processed in many different settings. We format our MPEG-4 files to comply with Apple iPod Video default setting to achieve a good quality playback from iPod to your TV set via video cable. We ship the MPEG-4 files on the regular data CD for you to copy them directly into your iTunes library.

A word about the picture quality of our Streaming Video Preview
We are using Google Video sharing program to present our previews or full-length videos. The video files uploaded to Google are converted to Flash 320x240 streaming video format and therefore loose the quality and resolution when played on a larger screen. The resolution and quality of the original DVD as well as MPEG-4 video is outstanding.


Our Video Formats

  • DVD - 4:3 Standard
  • MPEG 4 - Apple iPod Video files
    (downloaded or shipped on a data CD)

Supported Mobil Device Video Players
Our MAGIX conversion software has optimally preset video formats for mobile devices from following manufacturers:

Apple iPod Video, iRiver, Archos, Epson, Medion, Cowon, Creative, Hama, HP, Yakumo, Megapix, Perstel, Sony PSP, Technaxx, and many more per request


LFC Studio Video Production
We create and produce documentaries in close cooperation with organizations such as Canine Specialized Search Team and the Institute for Canine Forensics, a Northern California organization formed for the advancement of research and education of Human Remains Detection Dog Teams - www.k9forensic.org

Human Remains Detection (HRD) dogs are taught to discriminate between human and nonhuman items, alerting on the faint residual scent of human tissue or bones. HRD dogs do not disturb the crime scene by digging or retrieving evidence and can search homes or vehicles without destroying the evidence nor causing damage to property. The dogs usually work slowly and methodically. Their most common alerts are passive, sitting or lying down when an item is found.

Filming "A Nose For Crime"
Some of our multimedia compilations were used as a resource
for the educational TV channel Animal Planet


The following documentaries capture various Historical HRD dog activities. These documentaries are not for sale, we offer this DVD or MPEG-4 files as a token of appreciation for your tax-deductible donation to the Institute for Canine Forensics, a charitable 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

Please, send your contribution directly to
Institute for Canine Forensics
P.O. Box 620699, Woodside, CA 94062-0699

and indicate the DVD or MPEG-4 that you would like to have in your video collection...


STREAMING VIDEO SHOWTIME...

A NOSE FOR CRIME - "The Doberman Gang" segment
A Nose For Crime produced with our help for Animal Planet by Fleisher Film, Inc. is a documentary that profiles the courageous and amazing efforts of dogs who sniff out evidence in crime scenes. The dogs and their handlers are featured in interview and re-creation segments that were entirely shot in video and processed for final film simulation.
PLAY VIDEO - 17 minutes


THE SPACE SHUTTLE COLUMBIA MEMORIAL
One year later...
While returning from orbit on Feb. 1, 2003, Space Shuttle Columbia and all seven STS-107 crew members were lost over north central Texas. Columbia was returning from a 16-day scientific research mission. This video is a tribute to the seven dedicated space explorers who died that day and to NASA DART teams, the specialized search dogs and their handlers who helped with the recovery process.
PLAY VIDEO - 30 minutes

"A Nose For Crime" and "The Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster Memorial"
documentaries are not available for distribution

HISTORICAL HUMAN REMAINS DETECTION DOGS

Using dogs to help locate historical and archaeological graves is a new concept. The dogs are trained to be slow, methodical and keep the nose just above the surface of the ground; any fast moves and the dog can miss a grave. It takes many years of slow and patient training to develop the skills needed to do this work...

PRAGUE - LIBOC ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATION
An HRD dog has a rare opportunity to imprint and search for ancient human skeletal remains discovered by archaeologists and excavated on a Neolithic Age burial site in Prague, Czech Republic.

PLAY VIDEO  - 11 minutes
BOCA CEMETERY RESTORATION PROJECT
HRD dogs delineate boundaries of the historical cemetery in town site of Boca, located in the Sierra Nevada Mountains near Truckee, California.
PLAY VIDEO
 - 8 minutes
DONNER PARTY CAMPSITE SEARCH
The Donner family and friends left Springfield, Illinois, on April 15, 1846, planning to settle in California, claim free land and start a new life. By the time they reached the California mountains, the party numbered 81 people in 23 wagons. But early winter prevented them from reaching their destination and only 40 people survived. The HRD dogs confirm the location and play a small role in rediscovering this tragic yet exciting history.
PLAY VIDEO
 - 14 minutes
EL DORADO ROCK MOUNDS
ICF teams, using specially trained HRD dogs, search for long-forgotten American Indian and Chinese graves under rock mounds on private land in the foothills of Sierra-Nevada Mountains, California.
PLAY VIDEO
 - 6 minutes
BAYLEY HOUSE, PILOT HILL, CALIFORNIA
HRD dogs search a vast area surrounding the Bayley House and help to locate the Bayley family burial plot.
PLAY VIDEO
 - 13 minutes
BUENA VISTA CEMETERY
The Pacific Legacy, Inc. called the ICF for help to search Me-Wuk Cemetery and two adjoining "dance house" areas, located in Buena Vista, California, prior to planned building construction.
PLAY VIDEO  - 20 minutes
CAMP RICHARDSON WASHOE CEMETERY
The US Forest Service requested ICF teams to search the Washoe Cemetery located in South Lake Tahoe, California in order to identify possible unmarked graves in the cemetery and the adjoining campground prior to its refurbishment.
PLAY VIDEO  - 17 minutes
PRAGUE - ZLICIN 2007 - ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATION
Possibly the first documented dog find of skeletal remains (depth 1.5 meters) dated to 450 A.D.
, excavated by LABRYS o.p.s. on a construction site in Prague-Zlicin, Czech Republic. Historical HRD dog confirming possible locations of graves containing ancient human skeletal remains.

PLAY VIDEO - 22 minutes

SANTA BARBARA PRESIDIO - 2008
On Sunday, September 7, 2008, the Santa Barbara Presidio will be visited by several four-footed graduates of the Institute for Canine Forensics. For some time, the Institute has been sending out teams of these specially trained dogs to help officials search for long-missing persons at such places as the World Trade Center in New York, the site of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, the Loma Prieta and Mexico City Earthquakes, the Oakland Firestorm, and the Oklahoma City bombing site. But, the use of these remarkable human remains detection (HRD) dogs has become very specialized and is one of the most promising recent tools available to archaeologists.
PLAY VIDEO  - 31 minutes

LFC Studio created and produced several multimedia documentaries capturing the highlights from various trips to different popular tourist destinations worldwide. We invite you to join a small group of travelers via compilations of video, photography and theme music. The highlights and important points of interest are subtitled, our relaxing videos contain only a minimal audio narration by local trip leaders to enhance a magical fusion of picture and music - go to Travel Video Documentary page and enoy!
DVD - NTSC - 4:3 Standard - Total time 1hour 29minutes
APPLE iPod Video - MPEG-4
Individual chapters are arranged in Video Playlist format