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This is a time intensive process and I do professional quality work. Basic pricing for improving picture and sound, and creating one DVD or one file is $1.00 per minute. So if you have a one hour video it will be $60.00. You will get one file or one DVD. The DVD will have a simple layout consisting of one still frame and a title. The DVD will play when you press PLAY on the remote.
If you need a DVD and a digital file, or multiple digital file types, no problem, just an extra $10 per file type.
If you want a more elaborate DVD menu, no problem, let me know what you're looking for and I can give you a quote.
And if anyone out there owns the rights to a movie or television series and you want to release it on DVD, just contact me and request a commercial quote. Commercial releases require a few more bells and whistles.
Thin black bars or color shifts usually occurring for just a few seconds after recording started.
If your tape has degraded to the point where you see black flecks either inside the case or when you open the flap, or rough edges on tape itself, both are usually caused by heat exposure. I cannot risk placing a cassette in that condition in my equipment, so please check your tapes first.
This footage was from a Signature 2000 VHS camcorder which was manufactured in the mid-1980s.
Without getting too technical, the original was about 333x480 pixels luma (to put it in the digital parlance of today) compared to 640x480, which is standard definition now. Meaning, if you were to watch the original VHS tape on a television and right next to it you watch the edited digital version you could see the difference even more.
In case you're wondering, yes that is Scotty (James Doohan) from Star Trek. I filmed this at a convention in the late 1980s or early 1990s. The other gentleman is my dad, filmed around the same time.
I have been asked if I can stabilize a shaky video. The basic answer is YES, but you need to know a few things. Stabilizing works by increasing the picture size and cropping the top, bottom, and sides until the picture is smooth. This is a problem for two reasons. First, whenever you blow up a picture it increases pixalization which lowers quality. Second, you lose some of the picture around the edges. Unless the only thing in the picture that matters is able to fit in the screen after the picture is blown up, it becomes a trade off. I can reduce the shake a little and keep most of the surroundings, or reduce it alot and scrap them.
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