We Save Family Memories

Why Go Digital

Save Family Memories for Today, and for Years to Come

It’s Wise to Digitize!

Some analog media last longer than others, but eventually all organic material (including film, photos and video tape) degenerates and finally disintegrates. Digital files won’t degrade, allowing you to pass on your family archive in good condition for generations of enjoyment. Digital files make it easy to share your treasured memories with family & friends, and open up the opportunity to harness the power of technology to help organize, edit and enhance!

Reasons To Go Digital

Preserve and Protect

Once your material is digitized, it’s frozen in time. Digital files won’t degrade, allowing you to pass on your family archive in good condition for generations of enjoyment. Store an archival-grade back-up in a safe location or ask us to keep a copy of your files to protect your family history from fire, flood or other damage.

Enjoy

Going digital makes it easy to enjoy your family memories right from your tv, computer, tablet or phone. Or, just pop your disc into a convenient player! No more messing with heavy projectors or hauling boxes out of the closet.

Share

Once digital, it’s easy to share your favorite memories with family and friends. Simply order another copy of your drive or disc, make copies yourself at home, or upload and share your digital files online. Make it an annual tradition or gift for someone special!

Organize

Imagine all of those boxes of fragile memorabilia condensed onto one drive, in a well-organized system of folders and files. Overwhelmed by the prospect of organizing? Don’t stress! Soon, you’ll be able to harness the power of AI to organize your media for you.

Edit

Whether you’re the do-it-yourself type or want to take advantage of our professional editors, digital files give you the ability to edit just about anything. Don’t like that parade in the middle of your footage? Take it out. Did your film lose its luster? Restore the color…and so much more!

Enhance

Digital technology gives us a range of tools to enhance your digital memories and create the final presentation you envision. We can add music, titles & text, special effects and more. With our experience and your creativity, the sky’s the limit.

Why Choose Memories to Digital?

We Treat Your Memories as if They’re Our Own

We founded Memories to Digital in 2003 after our family mailed their family films away and they got lost. We wanted our community to have a local place to convert family memories, one that offered an alternative to faceless mail-away services.

Today, whether you visit a Memories to Digital location, a Memorywise location, or one of our local partner businesses to drop off or pick up, you receive the same great service from the same dedicated local team. We are your media digitization experts.

We do 100% of our work ourselves, in-house, locally. We give you and your memories the personal service, care and attention deserved, and we use the latest technology to provide you with high-quality digital memories.

Safe, Secure, and Nearby

Eliminate the worry of mailing your memories. We’re local, we do all of our work in-house, and we take it seriously to safeguard your media while in our care.

Media Digitization Experts

Put our extensive digitization expertise to work! We don’t sell cameras or print photos–we specialize in converting all of the old media formats into the latest and best digital formats.

Quality You Can Trust

Our 30-day, 100% guarantee says it all. We pride ourselves on delivering the best possible digital replication of your media as ordered, and will work tirelessly to resolve any issues.

Customized Solutions

Meet with a real person and get your project done right. We’re not a cookie-cutter, drop-box operation– we offer a level of personal service and customization others can’t touch. 

Our Process

1. Contact & Drop Off

When you’re ready to get started, pick a location to drop off your media and book an appointment, or simply stop by a location that accepts walk-ins. During your initial appointment, we will gather the details, determine which services best suit your needs, and provide an estimate of cost and timing. If your appointment is via phone, we will make arrangements for you to drop off your media.

2. We Digitize!

Once we receive your media, we will follow up with any questions and update our estimates. When you approve, we’ll start digitizing! All of our work is done in-house, locally. We use state-of-the-art equipment and software, and we have multiple quality checks built into our processes. Our goal is to deliver the best possible digital replication of your media, arranged into the final product you envision.

3. Enjoy, Share & Preserve

We’ll call you when your project is ready for pickup. Once home, you can conveniently enjoy your newly digitized film, video, photo & audio memories on all your devices. It’s also easy to share them with family and friends, and safely store them for future generations. We provide a free backup for 30 days, giving you time to order copies and safeguard your investment. We look forward to working with you!

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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.