CRTE Rapid — Same-Week Content Studio in Los Angeles.

CRTE Rapid is our same-week content service in Los Angeles: book Monday, get your gallery Friday. Built for brands that move fast, it delivers photo and video content on a compressed timeline without cutting quality. Appointment-only, in LA.

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Request a quote. Westlake Village studio, by appointment.

Who shoots it

CRTE Rapid days are run by the same photographer start to finish — the person who lights the set is the person who delivers the retouch.

What's included.

A dedicated rapid-lane for DTC teams. Ship the product Monday, get the retouched gallery in your hands Friday. Priced flat, no per-image games.

Deliverables
  • Retouched gallery within 5 days
  • PDP-ready crops
  • Priority scheduling
Great for
  • Weekly drop brands
  • New SKU launches
  • Amazon sellers
Turnaround
5 calendar days
Pricing
Standard package price plus a 35% rush premium
added to the base package, $500 minimum premium · Request a quote below
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Pay now.

Deposits and fixed-price sessions, paid by card. Once it clears, the date is yours.

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Plan the shoot.

Fill the brief for this shoot — then pick a time on the calendar.

What Rapid guarantees.

CRTE Rapid is a scheduling product, not a different camera. You get the same lighting, retouching and files as a standard session, compressed into five calendar days by locking scope before the shoot instead of after it.

  • Every file a standard session includes — 300 DPI TIFF masters, sRGB JPEG web exports and transparent PNG cutouts.
  • A hard cap of twenty SKUs or one shooting subject per Rapid slot, which is what makes the five-day promise real.
  • Up to six angles per SKU, agreed at booking and unchanged after the shot list is locked.
  • Same-day contact sheets, delivered as a watermarked PDF within four hours of wrap for immediate selection.
  • One revision round with a 24-hour return, scheduled inside the five days rather than after them.
  • A written delivery commitment naming the hour your gallery goes live, issued when the slot is confirmed.

Five calendar days, day by day.

  1. Day 1, 9:00 AM
    Call time

    Product arrives or is already at the studio. The shot list is confirmed once, in the room, and then it is closed for the duration.

  2. Day 1, 9:30 AM
    Setup

    One lighting design is built for the whole job. Rapid buys speed by refusing to relight halfway through, which is agreed at booking.

  3. Day 1, 10:00 AM
    Shooting

    Straight through with a working lunch, tethered so selects are marked live. Contact sheets are out by 5 PM the same day.

  4. Day 2, 6:00 PM
    Wrap of selection

    Your selects are due by end of day two. This is the only deadline that sits with you, and missing it moves delivery to the standard schedule.

  5. Day 5, 5:00 PM
    Delivery window

    The retouched gallery is live in Pixieset by 5 PM on day five, including the revision round, or the rush fee is refunded.

Qualifying for the five-day clock.

Rapid fails for exactly one reason: a decision that arrives late. If your approver is travelling on day two, book the standard schedule instead — it costs less and it will not put your team under a deadline it did not choose.

  • A shot list locked three business days before the session, with angles and counts already decided.
  • Products delivered to the studio two business days early, unboxed and inspected on arrival.
  • One named approver who is reachable on day two and empowered to sign off selects alone.
  • Final packaging and labelling — Rapid cannot absorb a label change discovered on set.
  • Export specifications for every destination, including marketplace pixel minimums.
  • A backup date, in case a shipment slips and the five-day clock cannot honestly start.

Three Rapid jobs, against the clock.

Twelve SKUs before a trade show

Twelve products shot Monday, contact sheets Monday evening, selects Tuesday, 72 retouched frames plus cutouts live Friday at 5 PM.

Marketplace listing refresh

Nine SKUs at six angles: 54 frames plus nine transparent main images meeting the 1600 pixel minimum, delivered inside five calendar days.

Replacement hero image

One product, four angles, one lighting look: contact sheet in three hours, final files the following afternoon on a same-week single-frame rush.

Rapid delivery and its licence.

Five calendar days from shoot to live gallery, with the delivery hour named in writing when the slot is confirmed. If we miss it for any reason inside our control, the rush fee is refunded in full and the standard delivery still stands. Complex lifestyle sets, multi-talent days and any video deliverable are not eligible, because compressing those degrades the work rather than the schedule.

Rapid carries the same perpetual, worldwide, unlimited licence as a standard product session — the speed changes nothing about what you may do with the files afterwards. Marketplace, paid media, packaging and wholesale use are all covered, and there is no separate advertising fee. Because Rapid jobs are frequently pre-launch, portfolio use is withheld by default and only released when you tell us the product is public.

Investment

CRTE Rapid pricing.

Rush scheduling and delivery applied on top of a standard package once availability is confirmed.

Entry offer

Standard package price plus a 35% rush premiumadded to the base package, $500 minimum premium

Rapid Rush Premium

A confirmed shoot that has to move to the front of the calendar.

  • Priority scheduling ahead of the standard queue
  • Compressed pre-production timeline
  • Accelerated editing and delivery window
  • Named producer managing the rush

Also available: Rapid Confirmed Booking (Custom quote after availability is confirmed quoted once the calendar slot is held) · Rapid Standing Access (Custom standing-access agreement per quarter)

What moves CRTE Rapid pricing

Packages: Rapid Rush Premium · Rapid Confirmed Booking · Rapid Standing Access

CRTE Rapid FAQ.

Our 5-calendar-day turnaround program for eligible product and content shoots. Shoot Monday, retouched gallery in your hands by Friday.

Ready when you are

Ready to book a CRTE Rapid slot? Pick a date.