We normally scan your photos, slides, and negatives for use in your Slideshow. If you have any digital pictures you want to include, please send them on a CD.

Yes, you can. Please review our music guide or consider sending your own music CD in with your film. We can also try to purchase a song online for you. You can find more information in our music selection.

Yes, you have the option to play the show totally or to select chapters from the main DVD menu. Remember to separate your photos into groups and label them when you send them so we can set up the chapters.

Your personal messages are in addition to the DVD title. Text messages are inserted into the video time line often at the beginning or the end of the video.

You can tell us the length of time to show each photo. We recommend 5-10 seconds

We keep all the files so that we can make additional copies, unlike other companies which eventually delete customer files. Simply call us or go to our order form and we'll send more copies your way or even deliver them to a friend or relative as a gift. Please note that even though we archive your DVD files, we cannot guarantee that a hard drive in an archive will not fail.

We transfer 8mm, super 8mm and super 8mm sound film

Yes, we typically make your chapters 10 to 15 minutes. If you chose a custom transfer, chapters can be inserted per your instructions.

A DVD will hold 2 hours or less of your movies. For minimum compression, we sometimes recommend transferring only 90 minutes of content to one DVD. Most 8mm film was sold and processed on 3-inch reels, however, it was common to splice film together and put them on larger reels. Please separate your film reels in the sequence you want them recorded..

We use a cleaner that is specially formulated to remove dust and mildew which also lubricates your film to help prevent it from cracking during the transfer process. It also helps to preserve film during storage, extending its shelf life.

As your movie film ages, over time the dyes in the film will begin to fade away leaving your movie film discolored. We take the extra step with all our film transfers and apply color correction

We remove obvious blank areas of the film or exposures that are unviewable.

Movies are not destroyed or damaged in the process. They are returned to you with your order. You should store them away in a secure, cool dry place as a possible back up in the future.

Yes, we can. Please review our music guide or consider sending your own music CD in with your film. You can find more information below in our music selection

Your personal messages are in addition to the DVD title. Text messages are inserted into the video time line often at the beginning or the end of the video.

We keep all the files we need to make additional copies, unlike other companies which eventually delete customer files. Simply call us or go to our order form and we'll send more copies your way or even deliver them to a friend or relative as a gift. Please note that even though we archive your DVD files, we can not guarantee that a hard drive in an archive will not fail.

Almost all VCR and camcorder tapes including vhs, svhs, minidv, digital 8, 8mm video and hi 8 video.

Sometimes we receive videotapes that have a short amount of video recorded on it. For example, if we receive three videotapes, one of which only has 10 minutes, you can consider adding it to one of the other videotapes on one DVD. The combined tapes will be charged at 50% less than the other two. Please remember that we can not put any more than 120 minutes on a DVD.

We can combine as many videotapes as you like, as long as their total length is no longer than 120 minutes. For digital 8 or miniDV, we recommend only transferring up to 60 to 90 minutes of content on to one DVD to maintain the higher quality of these sources.

If a videotape is longer than 120 minutes, we will treat it as another tape.

Yes, we typically create a chapter about every 10 to 15 minutes.

Your personal messages are in addition to the DVD title. Text messages are inserted into the video time line often at the beginning or end of the video.

We keep all the files we need to make additional copies, unlike other companies which eventually delete customer files. Simply call us or go to our order form and we'll send more copies your way or even deliver them to a friend or relative as a gift. Please note that even though we archive your DVD files, we can not guarantee that a hard drive in an archive will not fail.

We typically scan your images and save to JPEG. However, we can also deliver the lossless TIFF if you prefer, but your file sizes will be considerably larger and much slower to work with. Unless you plan to edit your images, get JPEG.

We scan standard prints at 300dpi, smaller photos may be scanned at 600dpi (dots per inch). Negatives and slides are scanned at 2500dpi, 3200dpi or 4000dpi as requested.

We will manually rotate images to the correct orientation. We also will crop your images to remove any border.

If we scan your prints at 300dpi, we could get about 500 photos on a CD and 3000 on a DVD.

If we scan your slides at 2500dpi, we could get about 220 photos on a CD and 1500 on a DVD.

Most projects are delivered as DVD movies. Please order extra DVDs for friends, family members or for a back-up. Sometimes our clients want the source files that we used to create your DVDs. Our source files are large uncompressed video files that can be used to edit and create new DVD movies. For example, you may want to send a new edited movie to a relative without your summer vacation. You must have video editing software on your computer to create new movies.

If you order this option, you will get an external USB NTFS drive. Most likely it will be much larger than needed to store your source files.

We will transfer all of the uncompressed source (avi files) and DVD (mpeg files) to a USB drive.

Yes, you can perform the data transfer with most newer Macs. However, your Mac doesn't write to an NTFS formatted drive.