San Jose video production company for Silicon Valley tech teams

Yes. Technology is our largest sector. We produce brand films, product launches, explainer animation, customer testimonials, executive podcasts and training content for data and AI platforms, SaaS companies, hardware and semiconductor teams and medical technology firms. The recurring challenge is the same one every time: turning something abstract, technical and often invisible into a story a buyer, an investor or a candidate actually follows.

No, and we would rather say so plainly. 7 Hills Productions is headquartered in Irvine, California, with home bases in Los Angeles and San Diego, and we travel to San Jose and the wider Bay Area for production. In practice that means the crew, the cameras and the producer who scoped your project all arrive together rather than being assembled from local freelancers, and travel is itemised in the estimate before you approve it.

The entire production team works under NDA, signed before pre-production begins. That covers scripting, the shoot, editing, review links and how footage is stored and eventually archived. If your legal or security team has specific requirements around unreleased hardware, pre-GA software, internal messaging or where footage may be processed, we agree those in writing during planning rather than on the shoot day.

Yes, and it is routine work for us. We film on corporate campuses, in labs and clean-room environments, on manufacturing floors and in active hospitals. We keep a deliberately small crew footprint so normal operations continue around us, and we supply crew names, equipment lists and certificates of insurance far enough ahead for facilities and security review to clear.

Most projects fall between $3,500 and $50,000. A single customer testimonial in San Jose starts at $5,000, a corporate or interview video around $6,000, and brand films, product launches and commercials around $9,000, scaling with filming days, crew size, locations and deliverables.

Every quote is built from the same three parts: pre-production from $500, a production day at $6,000 to $8,000, and editing at $2,000 to $4,000 per finished video. Travel and expenses for a Bay Area shoot add $1,000 to $2,000 and are itemised separately so you can see them. The budget estimator returns the same range in about two minutes.

Three to four weeks from kickoff to final delivery is typical, and our average across all projects is 28 days. Technology launches often move faster than that, so we plan backwards from the announcement date and can run expedited edits when a date is pulled forward. Tell us the launch date on the first call and we will tell you honestly whether it is achievable.

Yes. We cover developer conferences, partner summits, keynotes, trade show floors and all-hands events at venues including the San Jose McEnery Convention Center, the Santa Clara Convention Center and Levi's Stadium. Coverage typically includes multi-camera keynote capture, booth and attendee interviews, a highlight reel and fast-turnaround social edits, often delivered the same week.

Usually not. Filming entirely inside your own offices, campus or leased space does not require a city permit. Permits come into play when a shoot uses public streets, parks or plazas, needs parking held for production vehicles, or involves drone flight. We identify what is required during pre-production and handle the applications when they apply.

Sometimes, and it depends heavily on the exact address. Much of San Jose sits inside controlled airspace around Mineta San José International Airport, and parts of the South Bay fall under additional restrictions. Our FAA Part 107 certified operators check each site and secure authorization before filming. Where a flight cannot be authorized we plan an alternative, such as a rooftop vantage or a nearby location outside the restriction.

Yes. A single trip can cover several sites, which is usually the most cost-effective way to work with us if your offices are spread across San Jose, the Peninsula and San Francisco. One producer runs the whole schedule, one crew shoots every location, and the footage cuts together as one campaign rather than looking like three different films.

We handle the whole thing: concept development, scriptwriting, storyboarding and casting where it is needed. For explainers and commercials we write a script with you. For executive and customer videos we use a guided interview approach instead, writing questions designed to get natural answers rather than putting an engineer on a teleprompter.

You do. You receive the finished masters, the cutdowns, the vertical versions and the raw footage, already colour corrected, at no extra cost. There is no ongoing licence fee to keep using your own video, and no retainer is required to start.