Preserving Your Memories
Why Transfer?
Your images are precious, but just like memories fade or can be forgotten; so too these films & tapes deteriorate and can be lost to time. Sometimes, digital preservation can be a challenge. This depends largely on how your media was stored. Films can fade or worse yet they can crack and shrink.
Commonly with video or audio tapes an old machine can snap the tape or mold will find a home in the cassette. These Challenges are all things we commonly encounter. If your film or tape is in pretty bad shape let our technicians check it out. We may be able to help.
Our goal is to preserve your films & tapes by transferring them to a digital format with the latest technology available today.
Faded Photos & Film can be touched up by our digital colorist. We don’t like to brag but it is a challenge we gladly accept to bring your images back to their original glory - we've had customers tell us that our restored material actually looked better than when it was taken.
Video tape (unlike film) was never really meant to be cut and spliced but we can repair damaged tape and copy to DVD or Flash Drive.
Share the joy you once had creating these memories with your friends and family, let us preserve your films and tapes before its too late.
Once you project is completed, we can even add your personal narrative of the material to the DVD or Flash Drive - now you have something that grand kids and great grand kids will truly appreciate because it's no longer just people in old clothes and old cars.
Best Way to Preserve Memories Now Is Flash Drives!
DVD Players haven't been made in years. But Blu-ray players will play DVDs. However, soon Blu-ray players will no longer be made.
Companies are now driving consumers to store their memories "in the cloud" and stream them for viewing. But what happens if the cloud you are using is hacked? All of your memories could be lost.
We can transfer all your memories to a fast USB 3.1 or USB-C flash drive which you can share and copy to family members or friends to ensure your memories are preserved from fire, theft, flood or other calamities. Some of our customers are even ordering an extra flash drive to put in their safe deposit box.
The Art of Transferring 8mm Film
Year's ago people would point their projector at a bed sheet and record their films with a VHS camcorder. The images that played back on their TVs would flicker, often be at the wrong speed and usually were crooked.
The film scanners we use today allow us to capture each frame of the film individually at 2K resolution (Above High Definition.) Thus, giving us not only the ability to create a Hi-Def Blu-ray or MP4 of your film, but actually capture every last grain of each frame, color correct and image enhance your film and, in some cases, bring out details that were too dark to even see.
But before the film ever touches the scanner we carefully inspect it. Film can become brittle when poorly stored. Splices that ran through your projector 50 years ago peel away today. Sprocket holes that once guided your film may have been torn by a misaligned film path. We clean and lubricate each film and check for bad splices and torn film to be able to make the most pristine copy of your celluloid memories as possible.