Video Processing lab where all your
video tapes and reels transfer are processed.
Deciding who you should trust with your home movies is a difficult decision. Below is a checklist that should help you make a good decision. This is what I would look for before I trust my precious videos and film to any company:
1) Are they organized?
Writing your name on a piece of paper and throwing it in a box with all of your irreplaceable movies is scary. We let the customer enter their information directly into our database and then we use the database for every step of our process. Customers are given a unique barcode for every movie they will send in, they can check the status of their order online.
2) Can they do a good job?
Buying equipment and then starting your own business might be good enough, that is how we started. But if a company has developed their own equipment it should be better than anything else on the market. Our central processing lab has refined our processes on the hardware and software front end and developed innovations that allow us to claim that no other company out there can produce output digital quality better than ours. t
3) Will the finished product be “finished”
With Video Transfer Boston you can specify the titles or sequence of your movies. Their is no extra fee for titles, music and scene selection menus on additional copies. Sharing your movies online is free and easy. You can even get your film transferred to high definition and store it on a hard drive for future formats.
4) Do they know what they are doing?
Our processing lab has made a substantial investment in developing our own transfer machines, online movie viewing/editing and an easy to use web site. Our lab transfers over 1 million feet of film and thousands of hours of video and 35mm slides each month on average. We are able to complete the average job in under three days. This requires very sophisticated systems gained only through experience and continued success.
Call us today at (617) 901-4564 or email us at videotransferboston@gmail.com for a free consultation. If you live in the Greater Boston area, we will pick up your reels and video tapes for free. You receive a DVD that you can watch on your DVD player or computer and a web video version you can email to friends and family.
6 responses so far ↓
1 jeannine may // Apr 24, 2008 at 1:33 pm
I have 29 miniDV tapes that I would like to have transferred, as they are, and eventually edit them in the future.
They are precious to me since my mom recently passed away and my father is terminally ill.
What is your recommendation? Should I have them transferred to hardrive, DVD? Which one is easier to edit? Pricing for this number of tapes?
I live in Brookline MA
Thank you
Jeannine
2 admin // Jun 6, 2008 at 2:29 pm
For your editing purpose, no question about it, transfer to hard drive, not DVD. When you convert to hard drive, you get .AVI files, 1 hour is about 12 Gig. When you transfer to DVD, you get .MPEG2 format, 1 hour is only one tenth of that, so you can imagine the data you have lost. It’s still great for viewing, but if you plan to edit, definitely the Hard Drive.
3 Steve // Aug 6, 2008 at 9:33 am
I am trying to call you to obtain services. However, when I call number on your web site- a pleasant voice states- “This is Myrtha”. What number should I call?
4 Andrew Warner // Sep 7, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Hi Myrtha,
You did some work for me on the 8mm tapes and that went great. My grandmother was also wondering if you could take projector slide images and turn them int0 some updated digital picture form. Please email me when you get a chance. Thanks!
5 Jon // Oct 7, 2008 at 11:46 am
Hello,
I just have a few quesitons. How long will it take you to transfer 6-8 VHS tapes to a hard drive? How long will it take you to produce DVD’s for 6-8 VHS tapes. Lasty, if they were to be put onto a hard drive could I just bring in an external hard drive instead of the computer tower? Thanks.
-JK
6 admin // Oct 22, 2008 at 9:48 am
Dear Jon,
It takes 2 to 3 weeks for our lab to transfer your tapes to a hard drive. The DVDs are part of the process so there’s no additional time for the DVDs.
Yes, bring in an external hard drive. To estimate what size hard drive, use this rule of thumb: 1 hour video is around 15 Gig, so if you have 6 hours of video, that’s about 90 Gig.
Myrtha
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