video4creative
Award-winning audio and video artists with over 35 years experience in audio recording, mixing, sound design, video editing, live video production, and graphic design.
CONTACT
831.768.8727
Video 4
PO Box 1384
Aptos, CA
95001-1384
team
DENISE GALLANT
- Editing with NBC, LA, CBS NY and LA
- Graphic design with ABC, NY
- Billboard Music Award - Best Independent Video
- American Film Institute Grant Award
- UCLA Film School - BA/Cum Laude
- UCSC - Communications - BA
Product Manager and Product Specialist for over 15 years — Chyron/CMX, Autodesk’s Discreet Logic, Electro-GIG and XAOS Tools. Created many specs and software-hardware specs including “Spruce Up” with the DVD company, Spruce, which was later sold to Apple. Spruce Up is now known as iDVD. Denise was product manager for the CMX OMNI systems, Liberty Paint on the SGI platform, XAOS Tools N’Title and Pandemonium on SGI, Lightwave 3D on SGI, and product specialist with Discreet’s Frost real time 3D and Virtual Set system and Discreet’s Smoke and Fire editing systems. Denise also worked directly with the SGI trade show group, creating graphics and video for shows such as NAB in Las Vegas. As product manager, Denise has trained hundreds of editors and graphic artists at major TV stations all over the country, as well as for the Olympics in Barcelona, film studios in Kuala Lumpur, GloboTV in Rio, and television stations in San Paulo, as well as television stations in Toronto, Canada.
First VJ in San Francisco and LA — Co-Creator of the innovative Synopsis Video Synthesizer, which produced live audio-video effects at music concerts, raves and clubs.
Synopsis Video — Denise owned and operated this small independent effects studio in LA, partly based on the famous Sunset Blvd. Strip. Created over 100 music videos, including work with Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo, Tangerine Dream and Supertramp. Video effects and work on several films, including Doug Trumbull’s “Brainstorm” and John Dykstra’s “Lifeforce”.
Animator / Editor at Image West — The first special effects and 3D video studio in LA — created national commercials, TV logo packages, and television openings
Presently a Board Member of the Santa Cruz Film Festival, a Board member with the Community Television of Santa Cruz County, and Digital Media Factory in Santa Cruz. Denise also teaches video editing at Cabrillo College in Aptos.
One of the three first founders of Visual Music Alliance: The Visual Music Alliance (VMA) was founded in 1980 by a group of professional film and video artists and musicians to promote the visual/audio media as an art form and to fill the information void on the cutting-edge technological developments that were altering the face of the moving-image arts.
Denise is presently producing television shows for The Coastal Network in Monterey, Bakersfield, Fresno, Sacramento and San Luis Obispo. She won two WAVE Awards in2009 with her work with Santa Rosa Community TV on Lisa Fredenthal-Lee’s children’s TV spot “Don’t Throw That Away, and the “One Year Anniversary” Station Promo — and the “One Year Anniversary” Station Promo for CreaTV — one of many station logos and TV spots for this San Jose Television Channel.
KEVIN MONAHAN
- Three time honorary Emmy Award Winner for Audio
- Live sound effects with Peter Gabriel's Secret World Tour
- Album Credits with Yes, Peter Gabriel, Genesis, Toto and Herbie Hancock
- Three US patents for Sound Design - Data Compression and Sound Looping
Sound Effects Designer and Product Manager for over 20 years and one of the original employees with E-MU Systems. At E-MU Kevin developed the first digital effects sound library in existence — for the first Emulator I. Kevin was one of the first musicians in this sound company and as a result was the liaison between E-MU and many of the top musicians in the world from the early 1980s-2001. Just a few of these artists were Genesis, Peter Gabriel, U2, The Cure, Yes, Jerry Harrison and Talking Heads and many more.
Kevin was also involved with Disneyland, creating digital sound boxes for their theme parks, updating them from the antiquated analog sound loops that they used in the past.
Kevin and his band FX, with Doug Morton, produced and mastered the first independent CD in existence, “In Motion” that was not the product of a record label.
Kevin has been operating with Denise Gallant as Video 4 since 2001 and continues to have close ties to the audio industry. Kevin and Denise produce the yearly graphics for the award show, TEC Awards at the AES show as well as the DVD of the show, which is handed out to thousands of people in the audio industry. They also produce graphics, video and DVDs for The TEC Award’s Hall of Fame award show. Video 4 has produced over 150 DVD web movies for Universal Audio for over six years. Also videos with Analog Devices, Antares, and Muse Research.
Kevin is also a DVD, web movie, and compression specialist, and works with many other studios in the Santa Cruz and Watsonville areas.
