Above and Beyond Productions

I have never written a review before, but the work Maria (Above & Beyond Productions) did for us was so good that I’m going to take the plunge.
We came to her re embedding professional-​quality voice into a presentation for a major series of webinars we’re rolling out. Not only did she do that, but she also opened our eyes to a host of additional features we could include that took our initial concept and put it into a different (far superior) class of presentation.
Professional, creative, business savvy, hands on and a delight to work with. I wish there were more than five stars to rate her, because we would. Without hesitation, we recommend her (and, are going to use her again for our next presentation that’s already in development — maybe that’s the best recommendation).

Maria is the greatest, with a great eye. She is very professional, as is her work! She captured everything we were looking for in our wedding without needing any directions from us. We highly recommend her. Her prices are extremely reasonable!

Maria was an amazing videographer! She helped us create a company video that explained who we were. She even helped coach us on our delivery of lines. Would definitely hire again!

Maria was great! She made my family’s restaurant (Mixed Roll & Bop– shameless plug) commercial and it was fantastic! She had great direction, beautiful shots of our food, restaurant, and staff, and responded to our beck and call effortlessly! We specifically asked her for certain shots as we cooked our food in real time and she transitioned around the kitchen with ease and came out with some amazing shots!
As for results, I was surprised how fast it came out! I think the turn around time was give or take 2 days after I gave my feedback before publishing.
I would definitely recommend Maria if you’re looking for a videographer! And aside from her work, she is also a great person! Professional, nice, and easy to get along with.
Thanks Maria!

This is my first review because this is something i feel strongly for and that is very important to me. :/
I feel broken hearted because my wedding video is still incomplete even though my wedding was april/​2014. We waited patiently than months later found out that she still not done with it. It was OK, I was willing to wait for it because I wanted it to be amazing and I’m a very patient person, afterall I waited forever for my now husband to come around. She gave us a rough copy to give us an idea of what she had. There was a lot of uneeded noise and messy parts. It didn’t transition smoothly has i hoped. Still we were patient. We ended up coming in to help her understand what we wanted a coup
le times. She was going througha divorce so i wanted to give her all the time she needed. Than about a yr later she finally gives us one copy instead of the 4 we wanted because her brother died. I felt sorry for her. OK fine. We view it and there are parts where the music doesn’t even match dancing scenes, there was rough transitions and there was a big repeat. Than the end wasn’t even the end. I was so disappointed. We texted her and she never texted back so we waited because maybe she’s still mourning over her brother. Than later we call her and leave a message, still no call back. It’s been a year and a half now and my family asks me about my wedding video but I don’t know what to tell them. I can’t give them a copy of anything because I don’t even have a complete one. :(

I am so happy with the amazing video story Maria Cooper captured of my engagement party. She has a great eye for beautiful composition and the ability to capture real life moments. She and her quality of work is very professional and surpassed my expectations. And on top of that she is super friendly, kind, passionate and positive, which made it a real pleasure to work with her. I will definitely be hiring her for all of my future videography needs.

Maria was wonderful! She really cares about her clients and was a joy to work with. She met with me after she was finished to ensure our happiness with her work and was able to capture our special moments that we will be able to relive for the rest of our lives. I highly recommend Maria to other brides, she made us feel so excited for our big day and was so accommodating with some great footage.

Above and Beyond Productions was the best! Maria Cooper completed a video for my Mom’s 90^th Birthday Celebration. And, it was the highlight of the party. Maria was extremely professional in all her dealings with our family and friends both before, during and after the Celebration. Somehow she captured more than just images. She captured «emotions» of love, respect, togetherness, family, and joy. The videos were a warm, touching and tender testament of Our Family and a tribute to our Mom. Maria Cooper truly lives up to her business name because she REALLY went above and beyond in sooooo many ways — commitment, dedication, professionalism, attention to detail, pride in her work, are just a few words to describe her. You can tell she really enjoys her work and is passionate about it. I look forward to having her video our next big family event. Two Thumbs Up for sure!

Maria Cooper is one of the most professional, amazing, and honest individual I have ever worked it. As picky as I am Maria gave me the opportunity to sit with her side by side and she edited my wedding video exactly how I wanted it. It’s truly a blessing to have found her and now I have an amazing wedding video that I can cherish for the rest of my life.

OMG!!! Maria did an absolutely fabulous job on my wedding video. I couldn’t of been any happier with the way it turned out. Maria was very helpful throughout the whole process and she did not add any stress on to my already super busy schedule (you know… planning that wedding thing… lol).
My husband and I met with Maria a couple weeks before our wedding to finalize the details and ask any questions. She assured us to just go about our wedding day and she would catch all the little details. The day of the wedding went as smooth as butter. Maria arrived at the venue early to set up and started filming right away. She then followed us all over Golden Gate Park on our «photo shoot» with our photographer, again filming all the details.
After our wedding day was over, Maria got right to work on editing. I sent her the song I walked down the aisle to and all the photos my photographer gave me. (Maria only did the wedding ceremony and after, so she didn’t get to see all the prep work my husband and I did to become the beautiful couple we were.) She was super grateful because she wanted the video to tell the whole story of our big day and with the photos she knew she could. We got our final version back quicker than I expected and couldn’t be happier. I cried the first time I watched it.
All in all, it was a great experience working with Maria and I definitely recommend using Maria for any important life event you may have. She is very professional and easy to work with. My wedding day turned out better than even I expected and I get to relive my super special day over and over again with Maria’s video.
Here’s a link to our youtube videos on youtube. (please note this is the shortened versions of what I actually have a home)

I found Maria through a friend who recommended her. We were having our oldest sons Eagle Scout Court of Honor and didn’t know who to use. We were very happy with Maria’s professionalism and her friendliness, she blended in so well with our friends and family only a few guests realized she was filming the event. The video was amazing and even the DVD’s had a beautiful picture on it which was a nice touch. Maria came early to set up and made sure everything would be perfect. The best part was watching the video. There were tears of joy as Maria had also recorded special words of wisdom and best wishes from our family and friends to our son. It is a priceless keepsake and well worth the money! We are having Maria do our next sons Eagle Scout Court of Honor this June because we were so pleased with her work the last time. I highly recommend Maria for any event you need recorded, she will do a fabulous job! Thanks Maria! We look forward to working with you again this June!

My wife and I celebrated our tenth anniversary last month. We went back and watched our wedding video that was produced by Maria. I remembered once again what an incredible job she did capturing our special day. Great touches, effects and quality (and this was ten years ago). Thank you, Maria!

She’s awesome!!!

I had Maria film a shoot for the company I work for. She is as awesome as it gets. She truly is AMAZING at what she does. She is very professional and went above and beyond my expectations. I was very pleased with her work. Thank you Maria :)

Maria Cooper is an awesome videographer. I couldn’t have asked for a better experience or a better video. Maria goes the extra mile to ensure enough footage and choose just the right footage to create a final result that I love. Maria is an artist in her approach and put me at ease so that my presence on the video was better than I thought I could be. Thank you Maria!

Maria is awesome, she did a commercial for my company and worked a miracle. I am very very camera shy and hate to hear my own voice, she was patient and very understanding. When it came to filming she even got under my dirty jeep and filmed me working on it. Maria your’re awesome keep it up!!!

Maria Cooper has produced several videos for my fitness training studio website, the most recent, a commercial for my home page. She’s skilled, passionate and has a great sense of both your vision and the best way to execute it. The final product was beyond my expectations. She showed an innate sense of what I wanted to convey and was a dream to work with. Very professional and a super fast turn-​around so we were able to showcase the video before the January fitness peak. Can’t wait to work with her again!

We had a hard time finding a videographer to film our wedding ceremony the way we wanted: we didn’t want an «art» film costing several thousand dollars. We wanted a documentary approach that simply filmed the ceremony from start to finish, so that family members unable to attend would feel, watching it, as if they’d been there. Maria Cooper (Above and Beyond Productions) took the job and did exactly what her business name promises: above and beyond anything we expected. We thought she would simply turn the camera on and off at the beginning and end of the ceremony. But she realized, a few minutes into the ceremony, that that wasn’t going to give us a good end-​product, and she ended up producing a much more in-​depth product, using a combination of different angles, still photos (to cover the parts where she was moving the camera) and video to produce an end product that was not only LIKE what the actual guests saw, but BETTER than what the actual guests saw. For no extra charge, because it was simply what she felt was necessary to produce an end product she would be proud of, and we would like.
In addition, she had the most amazing attitude of cooperation. With many of our vendors, we felt like «wedding #473» — a profit center in a big business, rather than two unique people. But not with Maria. She was wonderful to work with, went above and beyond what she was required to do, and what we expected, was incredibly reasonable in price, flexible in schedule, and the end product is really, really, really amazing. Great eye, great post-​production editing (which we didn’t even expect), … just outstanding on every level.

Maria Cooper, of «Above and Beyond Productions» recently Produced and Filmed a short «How to» product Video for my small business. First of all, I found her right here on Unilocal!Without much to go on, short notice, and little script; she scouted out the location, set up the time, helped me coach the «star» and filmed a Magnificant video. The presentation was perfect, she even shot a little spot for the site owner. My customer was delighted, and it has produced the intended results, SALES !!! Great job Maria, I would recommend her for any video job, large or small.

The wedding video is wonderful!
Amazingly Maria captured everything, every detail from beginning to end of my daughters garden wedding. I don’t know how she seemed to be everywhere. She had such details from the purple candies, butterllies in the bushes, decorations, each small detail was filmedl. The music was perfect for each segment. We had 3 photographers and they didn’t capture as much as Maria did. She began by knowing the family members and remembering to have them all in the video. We expected a nice wedding video, but this was absolutly GREAT!