AI where it earns its place, and nowhere else.
We are a video agency in Essex that shoots, edits and delivers. We also run a real AI pipeline behind it: transcription, translation, voice and repurposing. It makes things possible that were not before. It does not make the video for you, and we will never pretend it did.
AI video production means using machine tools for the parts of video that are slow, repetitive and invisible to the viewer, so the budget goes on the parts that are not. For us that is transcription, translation, voiceover, caption timing, clipping and product cutouts. What it is not is a machine writing your script, inventing your footage or standing in for a presenter.
The honest version: AI has made 2 things possible for our clients that were not before. One video can become 7 finished language versions in a day instead of a month. And a single shoot day can become weeks of content, because the transcribing and clipping that used to eat an editor’s week now runs while we sleep. Everything else is still a camera, a person who knows where to point it, and an editor who decides what stays in.
The part most agencies will not tell you.
There is a lot of noise about AI video right now, and most of it is from people who do not own a camera. The tools that generate video from a text prompt are not ready for paid client work, lip sync is a research demo, and a synthetic presenter reading your brand story looks exactly like what it is.
So we do not sell those. What we sell is a production company that happens to have automated the boring 40 percent, and passes that back as either faster turnaround or more output for the same money. Every job has a named editor. Every AI-assisted delivery is disclosed. If a language needs a human voice rather than a synthetic one, we tell you before you pay, not after.
- A named editor on every jobAI speeds the work up. It does not sign it off, and it does not replace the person who does.
- Disclosed, every timeIf a voice, a translation or an image was AI-assisted, we say so. On the case study and to you.
- One shoot, more outputTranscription, clipping and repurposing run automatically, so a single day yields weeks of content.
- Seven languages from one masterTranslation and voice, delivered as finished versions rather than subtitle files.
- Product imagery without a studio dayCutouts and packshots from photography you already own.
- We say no to the gimmicksNo synthetic presenters standing in for your brand video. No lip sync. Not production ready, so we do not sell it.
Same pricing as the rest of our work. We do not charge less because a machine helped, and we do not charge more for saying the word AI. Projects from £600, ongoing content from £995/month.
- Half-day vs full-day shoot
- How many finished videos
- Whether you need language versions
Five places it earns its place.
Transcription
Every video we deliver is transcribed automatically. That is what makes search, repurposing and translation possible later, and it costs you nothing.
Translation and voice
One master becomes finished versions in other languages, voiced and re-timed. Delivered for Barnet Homes in 7 languages.
Repurposing
The long piece is clipped into short-form automatically, so one shoot day yields weeks of content instead of one video.
Product imagery
Cutouts and packshots pulled from photography you already own, instead of a studio day.
Quality control
Caption lines, holds and on-screen text checked frame by frame by machine, then reviewed by a person. More thorough than a human pass alone.
Real jobs, real output.
Two signed-off housing videos rebuilt in Arabic, Bengali, Farsi, Pashto, Spanish, Tamil and Urdu. 28 finished files across captioned and clean variants, audited at 1080p30 and -16 LUFS, first full pass delivered in a day.
A door-entry and access-control manufacturer. We filmed on live development sites at Chelmer Waterside in Chelmsford and built an 80%-engagement library of over 300 marketing videos, a 10-minute flagship for YouTube plus dozens of social cuts.
Read the case studyA Braintree alloy-wheel repair firm. We filmed their mobile diamond-cutting service, including inside the repair van, and turned it into short-form video that passed a million views across TikTok, Instagram and Facebook, with one clip over 660,000.
Read the case study
Meet Sam
I have been making video since I was nine. I am not interested in AI as a headline, I am interested in it as a way to stop paying an editor to do something a machine does better, and spend that money on the shoot instead. The rule I work to is simple: if a viewer would feel misled knowing how something was made, we do not make it that way. That has cost us a couple of jobs. It is still the rule.
An Essex video agency that actually builds this.
We work with service businesses across Braintree, Chelmsford, Colchester, Witham, Maldon and Brentwood, and with public sector and manufacturing clients further out. The AI side is not a bolt-on we bought: the translation pipeline, the transcription at scale and the quality-control sweeps were built here, for real client jobs, because clients needed them.
If you want the plain version of what that means for you: faster turnaround, more usable content per shoot day, and the option of reaching people who do not read English first.
AI video questions.
Rated 5.0 across 38 reviews.
We loved working with Sam and the team. They took the time to fully understand the project. Professional, creative and ambitious, look no further.
Complicated industry-specific animated videos in a rushed time-frame. High quality, on-brand and cohesive. A big thank you from AC.
A very professional company, delivering a high quality product in good time. Animated videos and social content we're extremely happy with.
Fantastic in producing our new promo video, couldn't be happier. We gave some ideas, they produced a script. We won't hesitate to use again.
Outstanding in producing Excelerated Apps' promotional video. Creative, efficient and on time. Recommend to any organisation.
A pleasure to work with. They learnt each company's strengths quickly and produced very good videos to meet our objectives.
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