About Us

Video Kitchen constructs exciting presentations that you will be proud to show your family and friends. Displaying the project you created from photos and video clips is a great way to share your memories and create new ones that will last a lifetime.

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Background

Video Kitchen was founded in 1992 as a place to "cook up a great video!" Over the years over 25,000 customers have come through our doors to do everything from duplicating a tape for their family to production of sophisticated broadcast-quality videos for businesses, organizations and charities. We have grown from one to two closely integrated operations in Louisville Kentucky.

Not only do you gain access to professional equipment, you'll find a professional staff ready to help you create a superb video. If you need copies, one or thousands, we are the place to do that for you, six days a week.

What, Where, When, Who, and Why?

What is it?

Video Kitchen offers a wide range of services -- just look at the list below or the menu to the left. We work with video professionals, business professionals, educators, clergy, lawyers and everyday consumers to name a few of the tens of thousands who have visited us over the years. You can click on the underlined links below to get more information about our services.

Video Editing You can edit a video together from a wide range of video formats such as VHS, Digital, and BetacamSP. We offer linear (tape to tape) and non-linear (computer) video editing. You can work self-service, with an operator, or drop the work off.
Photos and Slides to Video When photos and slides are put in a video montage with music and titles, they come alive and become the centerpiece of a party or other celebration. We offer our video slide show service on self-service, drop off, or work with an operator basis.
DVD Creation and Duplication We produce DVD's from a wide range of video formats -- from VHS tapes to computer-produced presentations. Duplication prices have come way down and we can produce hundreds of copies quickly. Quality is superb.
Family History Videos Let Video Kitchen cook up a memoir video of your loved one as they tell all with interviews, titles and photos. A biography video is great for a reunion, birthday or Christmas present.
Video Tape Duplications Whether you need one copy of a tape or thousands, we can do the job quickly and affordably using professional grade duplication equipment. We support a wide range of tape formats.
Foreign Duplications The six international video tape formats are NTSC, PAL, SECAM, MESECAM, PAL-M, and PAL-N. We support them all at the VHS level. We also support PAL and NTSC for DVD, 8mm, Hi8, MiniDV, and DVCAM. Need to convert a tape for a different country's standard? Contact us.
DVD's, Video CD's and Internet Video
- Internet Video Video needs to be carefully compressed to look good on the Internet. We have professional tools for this task.
- Video Presentation CD's Put video on a CD so you can show it from your lap top PowerPoint (or other software) presentation program. We duplicate CD's at competitive rates.
Movies to DVD and VHS We transfer 8mm and 16mm old home movie film reels at high quality.
Camcorder and Projector Rental We rent VHS and consumer MiniDV camcorders and video projection equipment for groups up to 100 people.
Shoots and Video Production Let us shoot your sales video, training video, safety video or event.
Wedding Video Taping Your wedding is important! Video Kitchen's Edith Crutcher shoots the event with the latest digital equipment and she edits the final result with great care and love. Click Here to visit her web page.

Where are they?

Video Kitchen operates two stores in Louisville Kentucky. The original operation is at 2323 Bardstown Road, a mile and a half north of I-264 (the Watterson Expressway) at Dorothy and Bardstown Road -- in the middle of the bustling Bardstown Road corridor. If you look at a map of the Louisville metropolitan area, we are very near the center of the map.

Set your GPS unit to 38 13.435N and 85 41.363W and you'll be at our front door!

In April 2004 Video Kitchen opened a second location to better serve you at 1917 Blankenbaker Parkway. This is in Louisville's east end, two traffic lights south of I-64 on Blankenbaker.

You will see Video Kitchen in the center of a shopping center at the intersection of Commonwealth and Blankenbaker Pkwy. A SYB bank is to the left and a Penn Station to the right. Video Kitchen is right next to Nik's restaurant. Click on it's picture to the left to get a virtual tour.

The red stars on the map below show where our two stores are located.

Map to Video Kitchen

When can I use them?

Both Video Kitchens are open Monday through Saturday 10 AM until 6 PM. If you want to rent a station or take away equipment, you should call ahead to make a reservation.

Who runs Video Kitchen -- Owners

The Bardstown Road Video Kitchen is owned by Carlile and Louise Crutcher and managed by Edith Crutcher. The Blankenbaker Parkway Video Kitchen is owned by Carlile Crutcher, Tim Scheldorf and David Scheldorf, its manager.

Carlile, is a Louisville native, a graduate of Kenyon College, and worked for many years as a programmer, systems analyst and owner of a software firm before getting into the video profession. Louise, is a Louisville native, a graduate of Mount Vernon College, and has an active second career as an artist where she has run a studio gallery for many years a dozen blocks up Bardstown Road from the Video Kitchen. Their daughter, Edith Crutcher, manages the Highlands store. She is a graduate from Richmond College in London England with a fine arts major in photography. She has worked at the Video Kitchen since it's founding in 1992.


Edith Crutcher	Carlile Crutcher	Louise Crutcher

Video Kitchen East (VKE) on Blankenbaker Parkway is a joint effort by Carlile Crutcher and a father/son combo: David and Tim Scheldorf. David is a Louisville native and a graduate of Atherton High School. After working at and managing the Video Kitchen on Bardstown Road for 6 years he approached Carlile with the idea of opening a second store. His father, Tim, is a graduate of Purdue University. He is presently the Director of Maintenance and Engineering at the Portland branch of the Family Health Centers.


David Scheldorf	Tim Scheldorf

Video Kitchen's Staff

Some greet you on the telephone and at the front desk, while others work upstairs transferring movies and keeping the books. Most of us have helped you in person at one time or another with your projects. Click here to put the names to the faces that help you.

Why is there a Video Kitchen?

Carlile and Louise Crutcher went on a trip to China in 1992 and took a Hi8 camcorder with them to document the trip. By the time they returned they had recorded 8 hours of footage. They were interested not only in editing down the video footage but they wanted to combine it with still pictures that they also had. None of their friends or family would sit still for all the raw footage. They looked, but could not find anywhere in Louisville where they could do this work easily and affordably. This planted the seed that bloomed as Video Kitchen on Bardstown Road.

What started as a self-service and duplication business has grown to a firm with many more technical and artistic strengths. We not only have top of the line video editing equipment, we have the staff that knows how to run it all. As video presentations move from tape to computers and the internet, we've been honing our skills and software to stay abreast of this rapidly changing technology.

Many times we network with other professional firms providing just part of the solution such as adding video to PowerPoint or web site presentations that we don't create, converting an unusual tape to a digital format that can be edited on a computer, or shooting raw footage of an event for another firm to edit.

The reverse is true. A number of customers arrive with footage, computer files, photographs, you-name-it and we sit with them in one of our second-floor edit suites producing a slick, professional presentation ready to be shown to thousands, mailed out on CD's, or be broadcast on TV.

Ideas for beginners.

But no matter how hard we try to impress you with our expertise doing elaborate commercial work, don't be afraid to bring us your personal, school and church projects as they have always represented the backbone of our business. In fact, Carlile is working on a booklet to help beginning videographers. If you're not happy with the footage you have been shooting, you may want to take a peek at it. Over a dozen pages are posted here with no pictures or formatting but you're welcome to take a look and give us your feedback. It's called "Creating Great Videos." Click here to see it.