Creative Video Productions

At Creative Video Productions, we are a full-service high-definition video production company based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Our team takes pride in creating compelling presentations that move people to laugh, cry, buy your product, follow procedures, do a better job, understand and learn, stand up and cheer, change their minds, make a phone call, or visit a website.

Our Mission

Our mission is to deliver top-notch video production services that exceed our clients' expectations. We strive to build long-term relationships with our clients, understanding their unique needs and goals, and providing them with bespoke video solutions that help them achieve their objectives.

Our Services

We offer a wide range of services, including:

Duplication: Whether you need one, ten, a hundred, or a thousand DVDs or CDs, we can do that for you in-house, and the turnaround is pretty quick. We also provide labeling and jewel cases.

Media Conversion: Got some old VHS, Hi8, Betamax, or mini-DV tapes? We can burn DVDs for you. Three-quarter inch, Beta SP? Yep.

Production/Editing: Creative Video is a full-service company that can meet all your production needs, including videotaping and audio production, editing, music, graphics, SFX, and more.

Upload/Output: If your video needs to be online, there's a file for that, and we can provide it for you, including MP4, MP3, MOV, you name it.

Our Story

Although Creative Video Productions wasn't founded by Marc Goldstein until 1982, it has its roots in the hills of western Tennessee near the home of famed frontiersman, Davy Crockett. He and Marc's great, great, great grandpappy, Jeramiah Zachariah, were best friends until DC went off to DC as a congressman. JZ, as most people called him, had bigger fish to fry, so he stayed home and invented the video camera. He created this boxy-looking prototype using tree bark, a little sap, and a few leaves. It had a very low resolution.

Through the Civil War years, JZ, his sons, EZ and DZ, and two of his daughters, Weezie and Easy Peasy, found clients difficult to acquire, and the video camera stayed locked up in the family trunk the rest of the 19th century and much of the 20th. Following the two great wars, with the camera still in the trunk and technology quickly passing the Zs by, things changed drastically. Radio, TV, technicolor movies, popcorn, Raisinettes, and other inventions like tubes and chips changed the industry. The Z family, bewildered by these innovations, left the old camera untouched and stuck to typewriter repair.

In 1969, the latest offspring of the family and LSU sophomore, Marc Goldstein, started freelancing for ABC Sports and in 1974 joined the production department at what was then WRBT-TV (now WVLA). He became a news photographer, assignments editor, and then news director. In 1982, he left the TV station to start Creative Video Productions. He opened the trunk, dusted off JZ's camera, and decided it was time to buy a new one. Good move.