A Small Company With A Big Heart

Kathi and Wayne Jacobs founded VITA Digital Productions in 2000 to create and market Virtual Experience Videos. Wayne, a retired TV Production teacher and Kathi, a retired Mathematics teacher, were inspired to form the company after returning from trips to Italy in 1999 and Greece in 2000.

After spending months researching and purchasing professional TV cameras and other equipment, they made their first professional filming trip to Venice in spring of 2001, returning to the location of Wayne's proposal to Kathi in 1999.

In July of 2001, that trip was followed by a month long filming trip to London and Rome, where Kathi worked as an au pair immediately after college.

Since then, the couple has made 17 filming trips to Europe, Egypt, Turkey, the Caribbean, and Canada and has released over 50 different Virtual Experience Videos with many more to come!

Soon after returning from the month-long trip to London and Rome, a film editor called from Hollywood. He was editing a movie that had been filmed in Rome several months earlier, and as is often the case unfortunately, he and the director decided they needed some transition shots to utilize at several points to show time passing.

Since the camera crew had left Rome months earlier and the film editor knew we had just returned from a filming trip to Rome, he contacted them and asked if they had any night-time shots of Rome which they could license to the movie.

Fortunately, they did, and after making that first Stock Footage sale, they realized that while on their Virtual Experience filming trips they could also shoot tripod footage and license it to TV Networks. Since then, VITA Digital Productions' footage has been licensed to and used in numerous documentaries, soap operas, morning shows, and commericals on CBS, NBC, ABC, PBS, the British Broadcast Company (BBC), the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC), the History Channel, Biography Channel, and A&E in addition to being used in a number of motion pictures. In addition to being available on our company's numerous HD stock footage websites, our HD video footage is also available on adobestock.com.

In 2018, the couple plans to shoot new virtual walks and 4K stock footage in the Pacific Northwest, followed in 2019 by a filming trip to Italy.

Kathi and Wayne enjoy corresponding with many of their customers who have become friends, many of whom relate inspiring stories about losing weight, getting healthier, and staying fit.