Industry professionals who were looking for a better way to process their own duplication orders founded Lightning Dubbs in 1990. The company has grown and expanded to offer a unique blend of technological expertise and highly personalized attention. Lightning Dubbs provides the widest possible range of duplication capabilities and high-quality equipment, as well as an experienced staff able to respond to the needs of each individual client.
Full-service and satellite facilities
Over the past ten years, Lightning Dubbs has opened full-service facilities in Irvine, Santa Monica, and Burbank in addition to its original Hollywood headquarters. Lightning Dubbs has also opened Octane,a post production studio. The Irvine facility is a satellite office offering some of Lightning’s most popular formats. Clients can also take advantage of the Hollywood location’s more varied capabilities and Octane’s abilities in MPEG encoding, streaming video, CD/DVD replication telecine and audio. All transport of orders from Irvine is at no cost to the client. A unique feature of Lightning Dubbs is its multiple “boutique” locations. This allows Lightning’s associates to be more attentive to their clients’ individual needs.
In addition to the company’s vast technical capabilities, quality control and personalized attention, Lightning Dubbs is also well regarded for its cost effective management and reasonable prices. Indeed, this ability to offer better results for lesser fees is another reason why the company has continued to expand over the years.
Wide range of activities
The range of Lightning Dubbs’ activities spans such areas as corporate presentation/marketing/training reels, episodic television, infomercials, commercials, post-production, feature films, music videos and demo reels. The company provides services to everyone from a major television production needing duplication in the thousands, to a film student requiring a single copy of a sample reel. Moreover, Lightning Dubbs is equally equipped to work with non-industry members.
The company is respected for being as skilled in working with clients as it is working with multi-million dollar, state-of-the-art equipment. The result,an ability to not only respond to a client’s immediate needs and preferences, but to remember him/her during future associations. The company’s ability to cater to each individual client on a personal level is enhanced by Lightning Dubbs’ uniquely low associate turnover rate.
Among the company’s duplication technologies are D1, D2, Digital S, Digital BCAM DVCPRO, DVCAM, DV, Digital Hi-8, BCSP, BCSX, Hi-8, 1″,3/4″, 3/4″sp, SVHS, VHS, all format PAL conversions, assemble/insert editing, character generating, aspect ratio conversions.
When clients bring projects to Lightning Dubbs, they can rest assured that every possible measure of quality control will be undertaken and that the best equipment available will be utilized.
For further information, call (949) 250-8700 or visit www.lightningdubbs.com.
