Blue Ocean Productions produces films about marine life and environmental issues. Owner and creative director Jim Knowlton brings years of experience from working on Discovery Channel and PBS documentaries about the ocean.
We offer HD video production services, technical consulting and topside and underwater filming. We have a large searchable library of ocean photos and video available online. Our mission is to inspire appreciation and protection of our oceans and its creatures through media.
Select any image from Jim Knowlton's searchable marine wildlife library and have it printed on Chromira archival paper. Chromira prints are the finest quality, customized continuous tone photographic prints. Your signed print will be shipped to your address.
VIDEO EDITING
We edit high def video on a Quad-Core Mac Pro with Final Cut Pro editing software. We produce documentaries, short films, music videos, promo reels and PSAs for television, compress for the internet and save on DVDs for public presentations. We can work with any video format or frame rate.
Search over 200 hours of underwater digital video of marine life in our database of focusing on California, the Sea of Cortez, Hawaii, sharks, rays, kelp forests, coral reefs, whales, dolphins, seals, sea lions, schooling fish, and environmental issues and pollution.
Search our online database of ocean related photos of sharks, rays, whales, dolphins, seals, sealions, fish, lobster, kelp, coral reefs, sandy bottoms and rock reefs available for editorial use or project licensing.
UNDERWATER FILMING
Experienced diver and cameraman Jim Knowlton is as home shooting underwater as he is in an edit bay. He shoots 30p HDV video on a HDR-V1U. Contact him to discuss how underwater video can help your project.
TECHNICAL ADVISOR
Contact us to inquire about technical assistance with high def and std def video, format conversions, frame rates, internet compression, Final Cut Pro, Kona capture cards, Automatic Duck, compression for the internet, edit system design and setup.