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Since 1994 Andy Hirst has been involved in filming and sound recording birds on several continents for BirdGuides Ltd. Planning and executing filming trips to the states, Canada, Israel and throughout the UK, filming target species for BirdGuides products and archive of bird footage. Originally using Hi 8 and progressing to Mini DV, with experience of Digi-Beta SP. Because BirdGuides is a small company, Andy undertook many roles involved with video, DVD & CD/ DVD-ROM production, from planning and filming the initial footage, to processing and editing the video & sounds, to outputting to CD-ROM or the web, as well as compiling products. Using this experience Gone Birding can from concept to final edited product, undertake commissions for any short films or specific wildlife footage and output to a variety of formats, with video suitable for DVD/ CD-ROM's, web sites, or broadcast documentaries. We specialise in filming wildlife and especially birds, using years of experience and expertise.

White- tailed Eagle- Scotland

We have the latest Mini DV equipment, one of the best formats for wildlife filming as it is relatively light and portable, with broadcast quality images, as well as the latest digital computer based editing packages. With excellent knowledge and experience of UK birds we can undertake commissions to film specific birds in habitat, or capture desired behaviour. We have also obtained Apples latest editing, sound production, and DV authoring software Final Cut Studio on a new, fast G5 Quad core.

A new project for Gone Birding is to build up a digital film archive of UK & European birds. Over time this will be a great resource covering many species in many plumage's as well as capturing behaviour, something we can do given our 30 years experience in UK and European birding. A monumental task but undaunted a project Andy is particularly looking forward to. We have 300mm F2.8 lens, which means we will be able to film even better wildlife sequences and a new DV camera specifically for the task.

This footage will be commercially available- please contact us for rates (per second/ per min)and formats available. Sample footage coming soon.

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