Memories to Digital Lone Tree, Colorado

Memories to Digital Lone Tree

Address: 8481 S Yosemite St ste b, Lone Tree, CO 80124

Phone Number: 303-799-1677

Hours:
Monday: 10 AM–6 PM
Tuesday: 10 AM–6 PM
Wednesday: 10 AM–6 PM
Thursday: 10 AM–6 PM
Friday: 10 AM–6 PM
Saturday: 10 AM–5 PM
Sunday: Closed

Film

Video

Photos

Audio

Promise On Quality

Preserve your Lone Tree memories with expert, south Denver care. We specialize in transforming your irreplaceable photos, films, and audio into high-quality digital formats. Our Lone Tree store offers personalized service and state-of-the-art technology to protect your precious keepsakes. Experience the convenience of local media conversion in the heart of Lone Tree.

Meet Our Team

Meet Our Team

MemoryWise Littleton, Colorado

Eric Scherer

Cofounder

In the spring of 2003, Eric’s parents and in-laws asked, “Where in the world would we go to preserve our slides and Super 8 film?” Discovering there were no great options for them, Eric drew on his engineering and computing background to found Memories to Digital (now MemoryWise)–-a place where people could confidently bring their old analog media for preservation to DVD or other digital formats. From the beginning, Eric worked closely with his clients to make sure they felt comfortable with the process and were getting exactly what they envisioned. Today, MemoryWise is one of the most experienced digitization companies in the country and also offers special event videos, slideshows, sports recruiting presentations and more. Every job is still custom-made for each client, and our motto remains: “We treat your memories as if they're our own.”

MemoryWise Littleton, Colorado

Gwen Scherer

Cofounder

Gwen Scherer – food marketer gone techie – joined Eric in bringing Memories to Digital (now MemoryWise) to retail locations in 2005 and fell in love with the business of helping people rediscover their memories – now in a digital format. “My Dad always said the photograph was one of the most important inventions of his lifetime. The memories we preserve from old photographs, slides, videos, film and audio recordings are a source of important historical, social and personal documentation. It’s very rewarding to bring them to life again, and play a role in passing them on to the next generation.”

MemoryWise Littleton, Colorado

Mitch Jones

Customer Relations Coordinator

Mitch is the Client Relations Coordinator in our Boulder office. He majored in Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Northern Colorado with a minor in Film Studies and has been a part of the MTD team since 2013. No mjnor project detail slips by this eagle-eyed paper pusher!

MemoryWise Littleton, Colorado

Brendan Lancaster

Transfer Specialist

Mitch is the Client Relations Coordinator in our Boulder office. He majored in Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Northern Colorado with a minor in Film Studies and has been a part of the MTD team since 2013. No mjnor project detail slips by this eagle-eyed paper pusher!

MemoryWise Littleton, Colorado

Jonathan Broncucia

Transfer Specialist

Mitch is the Client Relations Coordinator in our Boulder office. He majored in Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Northern Colorado with a minor in Film Studies and has been a part of the MTD team since 2013. No mjnor project detail slips by this eagle-eyed paper pusher!

Film

Video

Photos

Audio

Here are the reasons to consider capturing your film in 2K or HD instead of SD:

  • Film predates pixels and lines of resolution. The image on film is generated when one or more layers of a random pattern of silver halide crystals react to light, and are retained or washed away and replaced by dyes in the developing process.The image detail generated by this process can appear anywhere on the surface of the film.
  • The more lines of resolution we scan with, the more of this random placement of image detail is captured and converted to pixels. Standard definition (SD) captures 720x480 pixels of detail, high-definition (HD) captures 1920x1080 pixels of detail, and 2K captures 2560x1440 pixels of detail.
  • Sometimes, scanning with more lines captures more of the “grain” of the film, or the crystals that remain on the surface of the film. The grain is more obvious in film that was produced with larger crystals (R8), and less obvious in film that was produced with smaller crystals (S8, 16mm). For some R8 film, scanning in SD softens the detail of the grain making it less disruptive to the image.
  • These days, with HD, 2K and 4K viewing environments - and larger and larger screens - more, smaller pixels is always better because the smaller pixels provide more detail and a smoother image as the image is enlarged to a big-screen.

SD can never reproduce the full image detail on a film frame because SD video has a fixed pixel pattern with a density of 720x480 pixels, and the pixels that make up the image are always in the same place from one video frame to the next. But film has a random grain pattern, and the image created by the grains of crystals is in a totally different place from one film frame to the next. These random grains each carry a bit of the detail that make up the complete picture and, at running speed, the random grains overlap each other on the retina of your eye to significantly increase the amount of apparent detail. This is called “accumulative resolution”. If you transfer your 8mm home movies to SD video, even with the very best SD camera, your detail will be limited by the coarse, fixed pixel pattern inherent in SD video. Of course, HD and 2K have a fixed pixel pattern, too, but the number of pixels are so great and the pattern is so insignificant, that HD and 2K are like a fine silk stocking compared to the burlap weave of SD. 

Our high definition (HD) film capture offers resolution gains of 667% over a standard definition (SD) capture (more than 6 times better). Our HD capture is not a mere up-conversion from an SD source. Our HD film capture equipment uses a high definition image sensor to take in 5 times the square pixels per frame of film that our SD machine is not capable of picking up. For 8mm films the HD image sensor generates greater than 4000 pixels per inch. Thus, the accumulative resolution effect found in film can be more readily seen in an HD transfer than in an SD transfer.