Unfortunately, videos deteriorate with time as well as with use. Videotapes can show signs of degradation in as little as five years. While DVDs will last a lifetime, until now it has been very expensive to transfer videos to computer disks at local studios.

• High quality transfers to DVD

  • Video to DVD

  • Movie Film to DVD

  • 35mm Slides to DVD

  • Photo Prints to DVD

  • Digital Photos and Digital Video to DVD.

• Intelligent Chapters - 54 Chapter points automatically detected at natural scene breaks in the footage.

• DVD Chapter Menus - Chapter menus with 54 thumbnail pictures representing the chapters.

• Background Music - Your choice of background music for your movie films, slides or photos to DVD.

• DVD Case Coversheet - Thumbnail pictures of the chapters on your personalised DVD case coversheet. Visual index makes it easy to search for favourite scenes.

Videotape to DVD

Most people don't know that videotape begins to degrade immediately upon use and can fade away in as little as ten years. Even fewer people realize the MiniDV tape is more fragile than the larger tape formats like VHS, so that pixelization can occur even after one viewing.

We will transfer your video to DVD, preserving your video memories for a lifetime. Make sure that you order an extra copy to store or to share.

Formats - All common videotape formats can be transferred to DVD at no additional charge, including:

VHS, VHS-C, S-VHS, BetaMax, MiniDV, Video-8, Hi-8, Digital 8, miniDV

We also accept NTSC VHS.

Pricing - $59.95

Features

• On-screen chapter menu

• Custom DVD case cover with chapter images

• Custom title on DVD main menu screen, case cover and disc

• Music video highlights from your content

• Digital Scrapbook multimedia software for PC (optional)

Movie Film to DVD

Movie film has never been easy to watch. Movie film breaks, kinks, flickers and over time, fades. Repairing film without professional equipment is almost impossible to do well. Projectors are difficult to load and they jam easily. Replacement parts and projector lamps are hard to find.

Home movies on DVD are as easy to watch as a Hollywood movie DVD. Proprietary technology to make your movie films play better on a DVD player than they ever did on a projector, by

• enlarging the gate so that the entire frame of the film is used, thus increasing the image captured by as much as 40 percent!

• synchronizing the film speed to the shutter speed of the CCD to eliminate film flicker

• cleaning the film, utilizing special light and capturing the image directly to DVD makes movie film images appear remarkably sharp and colourful

• using digital editing to eliminate film leader and unexposed footage makes the movie more watchable.

The end result is a better home movie experience on DVD than was ever available on a movie projector

Formats - Standard 8mm, Super8, 16mm

Features

• On-screen chapter menu

• Custom DVD case cover with chapter images

• Custom title on DVD main menu screen, case cover and disc

• Music video highlights from your content

• Background music for viewing the footage (optional)

• Digital Scrapbook™ multimedia software for PC (optional)

Pricing - $20 setup per job, plus $0.22c per foot, (the small 3 inch roll is 50 feet, the 5 inch roll usually 200 feet, and the 7 inch roll 400 feet), plus the cost of the DVD.

Maximum - 1600 feet of Standard 8mm or Super 8 onto one DVD; or 3200 feet of 16mm onto one DVD

35mm Slides to DVD

DVD makes slideshows better by providing background music and fade transitions to create a professional looking slide presentation. In addition,  captures of each slide as a 4.7 megapixel equivalent JPEG image, capable of printing a high quality print up to 8x10 inches.

Features

• On-screen chapter menu
• Custom DVD casecover with chapter images
• Custom title on DVD main menu screen, casecover and disc
• Music video highlights from your content
• Each image stored as a JPEG on the disc
• Background music for viewing the footage (optional)
• Digital Scrapbook™ multimedia software for PC (optional)

Formats - 35mm slides in plastic or fiber frames (no metal frames and no carousel trays or binders)

Maximum - 1000 slides per DVD

Photo Prints to DVD

Photo albums are the classic way to relive memories. However, photos fade over time and albums are difficult to share with more than a couple of people. Photo albums on DVD are easy to share, never fade and come with background music and fade transitions to give your digital photo album a professional appearance. Besides being set into a photo slideshow, each photo is scanned and saved on the disc as a JPEG image, so that these photo images can be used in any number of ways.

Features

• On-screen chapter menu
• Custom DVD casecover with chapter images
• Custom title on DVD main menu screen, casecover and disc
• Music video highlights from your content
• Each image stored as a JPEG on the disc
• Background music for viewing the footage (optional)
• Digital Scrapbook™ multimedia software for PC (optional)

Formats - Photos from 2"x2" up to 8"x12"

Maximum - 1,000 photo prints per DVD

Digital Photos and Digital Video to DVD

With the growing popularity of digital cameras, DVD provides an elegant solution for archiving and viewing digital camera output. Patented scene detection technology groups photos into intelligent clusters for easy sorting and viewing. DVD also transcodes all known video formats into MPEG-2 so that they can be viewed on a TV. Of course, all of the images and video are also stored on the DVD in their native format.

Features

• On-screen chapter menu
• Custom DVD case cover with chapter images
• Custom title on DVD main menu screen, case cover and disc
• Music video highlights from your content
• Each image stored as a JPEG on the disc
• Background music for viewing the images (optional)
• Digital Scrapbook multimedia software for PC (optional)

Formats - Photos from 2"x2" up to 8"x12"

Maximum - 2 GB per DVD

Digital Scrapbook™

Digital Scrapbook is the easiest way to edit and share video and photo memories. Digital Scrapbook is powerful multimedia software that may be added to a DVD transfer order.

Included on the same disc that contains the Hollywood-style DVD features when viewed on a TV, Digital Scrapbook is a built-in PC application that launches when the DVD is placed in the PC. Video clips and photos from the DVD digital transfer are already loaded onto the software.

Digital Scrapbook is intuitive and very easy to use.

You can:

• Capture still photos from your video

• Trim video clips

• Email and print photos

• Edit still pictures

• Create custom title pages
  with captions

• Create and share slideshows
  with transitions and custom music from your hard drive.

Ask for Digital Scrapbook with your next DVD order!

Music Samples for Movie Films, Slides and Photos

A variety of styles of background music from our library can accompany your movie films, slides and photos. Following are preview-quality samples of the music available.

Hawaiian

10 samples 2'11"

We are unable to include any music except for the above selections due to copyright restrictions.