Ten years ago, investment in the preservation of precious film and images was prohibitively expensive and only really available to the government and movie houses for archival purposes. Nowadays, high quality digitization and archival services are now within reach of the average business or man in the street.
Generations of movies and film are literally wasting away in boxes, attics and basements. With every day that passes these photographic memories are at the mercy of the passage of time. Within the next two decades it will no longer be viable to transfer them to digital media.
Precious movies and images from every walk of life are at risk and includes museums, universities, historical societies, governments departments, councils, libraries , schools and sports clubs
The question that all businesses and private individuals should be asking is not “if we should archive”, but “how soon can we archive”…… before precious memories are lost forever.
Scanning and digitising of old slides, negatives and photographs is the best way to archive your memories. Once an image has been scanned into digital format, it is easy to share with friends and family online or create extra prints and enlargements.
We can transfer your precious memories to JPEG or TIFF digital format. If required, we will remove unwanted dust and scratches using Digital ICE or SRDx. Faded or discoloured slides can be enhanced and retouched.
For prices for archiving your slides, negatives and photos to digital format, CLICK HERE
In order to properly archive and preserve your movile film and videos, we can create a Digital Master for you. This will allow you to copy and share the material in many fantastic ways. We will scan your 8mm, 16mm or video into an HD digital format that can easily be copied or edited with software on your PC or Mac.
We prefer to transfer your files onto medium such as a USB decide or external hard drive. We can also copy to DVDs but believe that this method is now obsolete and quality can be lower than that of the original.
For prices on archiving your Movies (CLICK HERE) and Videos (CLICK HERE) into digital format.
One of the things that most people don’t consider or understand about having all their films or videos transferred to a DVD is that they have done nothing to preserve their legacy for future generations. While DVDs are a convenient playback format, transferring original material to a DVD is just making a low quality copy from your master. Even “GOLD” DVDs are just a marketing scheme and are not infinitely more stable than any other type of DVD.
DVDs will not be the common playback format of the future. We have already lived through the demise of film projectors and VHS players and the future obsolescence of the DVD is inevitable. People often don’t think about the fact that you cannot easily edit a DVD. One of the things people often feel anxious about before they transfer their films is how to get everything into the correct chronological order. This is a challenge, because unless the date and event is written on the reel or tape, we might not know what is on it and we no longer have the correct playback machine for that kind of film and tape.
The price of the hard drives keeps going down and storage capacity goes up. Migrating your media that is already in a data file format to another hard drive every few years is fast, cheap and easy. There will no loss in quality when you migrate the data digitally from one drive to another, as in the case of transferring to DVD, because you are keeping it in the same format.