There is no better way to relive favorite family memories than to watch old home movies. As time goes by, you run the risk of losing your most precious videos and film to decay and damage. Ensure your memories are preserved and around for future generations to enjoy by converting your old home movies to digital format.

ScanDigital, a popular photo transfer service, recently added film and video conversion to their list of offerings. Just send in your photographic and movie materials and they will return the originals along with a newly created digital copy.

ScanDigital specializes in converting prints, negatives, and slides to digital images. This includes the scanning, retouching, burning to disk, posting to their online gallery for sharing and organizing, and creation of photo products. Digital Photo Frames, Slideshows, and other photo products can be made from your images.

“No longer do old reel to reel films and camcorder tapes need to fade away in boxes or dark closets,” said Anderson Schoenrock, ScanDigital CEO and Co-Founder. “With the addition of video conversion services, ScanDigital has created yet another way for consumers to bring their lives and memories into the digital age.”

Photos sent to ScanDigital are scanned and then individually cropped, oriented and color-corrected. The service also removes dust, minor scratches, blemishes and red eyes. The digitized images are returned on CD or DVD along with the originals, usually within a week after the prints or slides are received. Image files are also uploaded to a free online gallery for viewing, sharing and preserving photos long term. You can also upload images directly to your gallery from your camera and computer to unite your new and old images for one seamless photo archive. The service can handle black and white and color photos on printed paper as well as negatives, slides, and photo albums.

The recent addition of Video and Film Conversion services allows users to not only digitize their old photographic materials, but also their home videos and old reel-to-reel film. This includes 8mm, Super 8, 16mm, VHS, VHS-C, BetaMax, Hi8, MiniDV, and Digital 8 materials.

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