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Have a DVD? Camcorders, handycams, and DVD players are old, but they aren’t ancient. So, as long as you own one and you don’t feel like giving it away, using it for audios and videos isn’t a bad idea. However, we need to keep in mind that we have latest versions of videos available nowadays. And, due to advancements in technology, most of the latest formats like AVI, FLV and WMV may not be readily playable on DVD. Keeping all of these innovations in view, video to DVD transfer in Mississippi has become quite indispensable. And you definitely need to go ahead with something like this to save your hardwork. However, before you actually get to convert your videos to DVD, make sure to consider these four factors. Quality Making these conversions has no doubt become an easier task now with the latest software and online services. However, often when we do this stuff without proper test checks, we end up compromising on the quality of our converted stuff. So, next time you plan on transferring your videos to DVDs, or even in other formats for your thumb drive, make sure all your converted stuff looks close to HD and has no blurry patches. Colors When we talk about quality, the implied meaning is print and the pixelation. Those spots can be fairly visible on the screen after a video is converted to DVD. However, there is another factor that deserves due consideration – and that’s the color system of the old and new videos. Most of the time, the converted media may show color loss and/or few areas may seem faded.  Digital download
The biggest fruit of digitization is the ability to upload anythingon CLOUD or Drive. And this option will only be accessible if you convert your videos or any other stuff to DVD with alternate formats too. Make sure that the converted media is available in the digital format, suitable for any type of personal or commercial use in future. Segments You must have noticed that lengthy videos or even audiobooks on Youtube are divided into chapters. Or, we can speak more specifically, we call them video breaks or segments. When you do such conversions at home, you may not be able to add these segments and respective labels. As a result, sorting of data on the DVD still remains an arduous task. You deserve the best! While all of the factors are a major turn off when we rethink video conversion to DVD, we shouldn’t feel hopeless. We can still save our precious data in form of DVDs and flash drives and offer them as digital downloads with an easy option to upload them online if we choose a legit service. Having said that, you need to choose a legit service provider who’s ready to offer your videos the optimum time, attention and energy. And then only would you be able to enjoy all of these perks of getting your videos converted to DVDs! Our old magical moments are precious. Not only do those moments, documented even in prehistoric formats like 8mm, 16mm and super 8, arouse our nostalgic senses, but they are good for more. Old family bonds, ties, oaths, promises should not stay memories – they should come alive. Preserving these moments have their own rewards and risks. Rewards No matter how old your pictures are, they are still fresh and crisp in terms of your happiness. It was not captured using an eye, but a heart. Plus, these are not mere documents with faded colors that lie somewhere in the storeroom and becoming vulnerable for one or the other reason – they arouse your feelings. As soon as you look at them, you may have tears in eyes, or goosebumps or maybe your heart sinks again. Other than these personal feelings, our albums need to be turned into scrapbook since they revive the family history while cherishing all these moments, which in the memories, we tend to strengthen our social relationships with family, friends, and relatives. Remember the first time your boss handed over your commemoration letter, or when you inaugurated your first shop or made your first step towards your first home? Yes! All of us do because these memories have a sort of historical value for us. These moments, however, can be relived with the transfer of super 8 to the latest digital format. Don’t want the hassle? We have our excellent super 8 to digital conversion service that will make you fall in love with your older version once again!  Risks
What’s the biggest risk associated with our treasures? What’s the biggest fear? What’s the biggest negative vibe? WE MAY LOSE THEM! Yes, these old Super 8 films were made of harmful materials – usually, chemicals that would lose their original form or shape or color if exposed to unfavorable conditions. These films have certain plastics and nitrates that can’t tolerate exposure to high sunlight or even slightly higher temperature! Therefore, storing these memories can be an arduous task! Now what? Resources These wordless stories of our happiness, achievements, and successes deserve revival. But how? Turn them into modern scrapbooks. Get them digitized! Digitization is the need of today. And that’s why all of us are so lucky. We can get our super eight converted to digital formats super quickly. With such services, we can’t only store these old films – we preserve the memories, moments, colors, and whatnot. While individual scans are also a viable option, digitization should be preferred because then, all of our precious moments can have an online presence on Cloud, Drive, and social media platforms like Facebook and Insta! Final Thoughts ‘Instagrammable’ moments are the new standard of quality now. You would love to enjoy uploading your old memories to media for everyone to see, reminisce those times, relive them, or you would want to keep them on your phone. Just look at them in hours of delight or distress – because our times are precious, priceless, and would never come back! While capturing photos has always been simpler – capturing good ones is never easy. Also, if you got a bunch of such ‘good ones’ after a great vacation in Paris – organizing them at one place is never less than a clutter. But that’s about today! Think of the times when people had those films 8mm, 16mm, and Super 8. While all of these video formats were super successful for personal and commercial use during the 90s, it’s an exceedingly tedious task to store and keep them safe now. Because Gold is getting older! These video formats were documented in cassettes as a result of using handycams and camcorders. So, these were the most popular at that time and were considered indispensable whenever someone would plan a vacation. People would record their lively moments, underwater, within national parks, in museums, and anywhere else where they would holiday. And because those vacations are always a mental and emotional delight to think about – it’s saddening that these formats are going obsolete these days. But then, how can we preserve the magical moments caught in these formats? That’s super easy in this age of digitization.  What’s the solution? There are hundreds of professionals that would help you convert these old formats to newer ones. For example, it’s easy to get in touch online with an organization which provides an 8mm to DVD conversion service. Once these formats are converted, you can organize all of your moments in a hassle-free and clutter-free way. Some suggestions are: Get them scanned The very first suggestion is to get them scanned. Once that’s done, you may easily store them on your desktop, phone, laptop, iPad, tablet, or anywhere else you want. And so, they’ll never be lost again. Upload them to Drive in different folders As mentioned earlier, scanning those old films opens up many new ways. Not only can you save them wherever you want, but you can also upload them online – to free storage platforms like Cloud or Drive. All you need is a free account on Microsoft Outlook or Gmail, and you get 15GB of space free. There, you have user-friendly options to organize any data in folders of your choice. Just make sure you use easy labels that are quick to recall. Make a modern scrapbook A modern scrapbook is nothing more than a PowerPoint presentation, with some animation and background music. You can choose your templates, styles, and tags you would love to put. While this can be done very conveniently at home using any PC or laptop, there are also professional services available that would do this super cool stuff for a small fee. Try DVD or Mp4! YES! That’s the best thing that could happen to old films. You can even convert 16mm movies to DVDs if you still have one. Also, you can turn your old 8mm to DVD and other formats that are easily played in any modern video players. And that’s not all. Once these old films are digitized using a professional service, you can even put them on Insta, Facebook, and Snapchat to share your lovely moments with the world. Before deciding whether or not to get the old media digitized, ask yourself these three precious questions:
But why digitize at all? Storing them online is convenient and clutter-free… Digitizing the archives and vintage media enable us to store them online. This way, we get a better chance to preserve our memories for a longer time as compared to keeping those shoeboxes where media can deteriorate significantly. Another reason to consider digitizing your media is the hassle to store them in physical form. Getting those memories scanned by any negative scanning services saves us all the clutter, struggle, and, most importantly, space. Exclusive personal use of old media requires digitization… Beautiful journals, scrapbooks, and other printable resources can be made using exotic old photographs and videos. Furthermore, these pictures, once in the digital form, can be used on the DIY postcard and birthday greeting cards. This way, they make great custom gifts. People feel even closer once they realize we go the extra mile and reflect on all the precious moments spent together.  Digitizing helps bring family history alive… It sometimes hurts to know that the memories you cherished the most cannot be revisited only because they are damaged now. They are not in usable physical condition, and only its ashes are there in the negatives. No issues. These negatives, in this era of technology, can still be brought alive using negative scanning services. Not only that, these negatives can be scanned; they can be preserved in any format jpeg, png, tif, or even created into a video and saved as an MP4 with beautiful background music. Easy sharing… Whether the relatives are in their 60s, 70s, or even 80s, one can easily relish the precious moments, captured emotions and nostalgia with the ease to share digitized content. Photo scanning services convert our old photographs in a format where they can be easily emailed to other people. While sharing media on email is old fashioned, digitizing also enables us sharing the media via WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram. Vintage Media offers lucrative commercial use options… These uses of digitized vintage certainly blow one’s mind. YES. Old family archives are bought by hundreds of greeting card companies, gift making companies, independent entrepreneurs, magazine companies, and graphic designers for commercial use. These photographs are gold for book writers who plan to self-publish their fictional e-books on platforms like Kindle. Also, one of the golden rules of minimalism is to create a happy, clutter-free life. But to admit, most of the space at our homes is usually occupied by vintage stuff. Old clothes, bags, shoes, vases, photographs, negatives, and even damaged video cassettes. While getting rid of the first part of the list can be challenging, it is way easier to preserve the nostalgic senses and feelings by digitizing the media list for all these appealing reasons! In ancient times, we used to develop our photographs and videos by leaving our camera rolls with film-processing institutes. Unlike modern photo scanning services available in Mississippi, we would wait for a few days and eventually get our stuff developed with the originals or what we accurately called ‘negatives.’ These centers performed simple actions and still charged us an arm and a leg for their services. With the advancement in technology, we have newer methods every year for capturing and preserving those photographs. Most of us prefer sharing our photographs on social media. They get an online presence and occupy some storage space for free on the World Wide Web.  Storing archives is more than a struggle!
But, things with the old photographs and specially, cassettes with old videos are still a hassle to protect. We, specially the youngsters and teens of Mississippi, can all relate to this. Our grandparents have such nostalgic associations with those prehistoric albums that they are too important to get rid of. What to do? And so, quite painstakingly, we have brought up today these five classic methods to keep these archives safe. Because the data printed on negatives and video cassettes are sensitive, we need to make sure that our hands are clean and absolutely dust-free when we handle them. Photo-safe boxes with neat, self-explanatory labels As the name suggests, trendy, beautiful, some girly, and cute photo boxes are available in the market and widely used to store old archives. They have properly molded spaces and slots for labeling. This is the most convenient method to store old graphic stuff and sorting them out easily whenever required. Now, we move to a little complicated and time-consuming methods. However, these methods are cheap and may save you some money. Using DIY storage boxes Shoeboxes, old gift boxes, small cartons, crockery containers, and whatnot. All of these items can easily be found in your home, kitchen, or in the store. While these can be used on ‘as-is’ basis, one has to ensure they are dry, clean, and have enough space that won’t damage the data on these delicate films. Pack your tapes tightly Hanging loosely may disrupt the shape and damage the imprints on the videotapes. That’s why it’s recommended that we pack them tightly. When in a box or huge container, they shouldn’t be kept haphazardly. Also, they shouldn’t be kept in a disorganized way to prevent them from breaking. Store them in dark places It is always the best idea to store video tapes and photographs in cool and dark places. High temperature is a real threat to these films and may melt any marks on the film. Due to weather issues in Mississippi, old ink prints can also be damaged in case of exposure to sunlight or moisture (humidity) If you live in the South, you know humidity can wreck havoc on everything. A good way to keep moisture at bay is to store video tapes with some sort of moisture-wicking material. Digitizing is the ultimate best solution Getting these photos and videos scanned, converted to digital, and uploading them on platforms like Drive is the top method to store all the data of these old videotapes and photographs. Most importantly, this method is CONVENIENT and can be delegated to any digitize photo service. It is the ultimate way after which storing your precious moments becomes hassle-free!  Old pictures aren’t just pictures. They are wordless books, memories of precious moments. They are not mere paper documents with faded colors, but timeless emotions captured on cards. Whether you have any old archives, some old family pictures, broken cassettes or audio tracks in any form, they are not doing any good to anyone, except for arousing some nostalgic feelings. In this era of technology, one can easily relish those unforgettable moments and reminisce the happiness with friends and family by getting these videotapes and old photographs digitized. There are hundreds of inexpensive services available that’ll help you recollect your lovely archives. All you need to do is to contact an authentic and legit organization and bring those moments back to life.
There can be millions of things one can do with the pictures and videos after digitizing them. Editing your videos into a montage Collages, mashups, and medleys with favorite songs in the background are loved by everyone. With professional software, these videos can be conveniently turned into montages. However, such editing and collage-making require expertise. Don’t have videos? You can still avail excellent negative scanning services in Jackson, Mississippi. Create highlight reels of each tape Once these negatives are scanned, highlight reels from each new tape can be created. Wedding photographers are especially interested in these pictures. Most of them collaborate with event planners and avail photo scan services to turn it into a full-fledged wedding video. Making a family history book or e-book Distributing family history books on family events like baby showers has become trendy. All the memorable archives can be used to make such books, even e-books, and journals. Personal scrapbooking crafts and travel journals are some ways to preserve those happy photographs. While the young generation doesn’t need such services, these photo scanning services in Jackson, Mississippi, are highly in demand – at least by people who want to digitize their pictures before they retire! Monetizing the old photographs Creative entrepreneurs, freelance writers, card-making companies, and other unique content producers are always interested in buying photographs and slides which portray some sort of emotion, a specific concept or a time in history. According to them, old pictures, when once scanned and digitized, look appealing and form great products. They are then printed on mugs, photo frames, shorts, cards, and photo frames. This is indeed, a great way to monetize some pictures that would go dead in the memories coffin. Digital designers, however, buy only quality and high-resolution pictures, which is usually possible if legit photo scanning services are hired for the purpose. Other than commercial use, these photographs form great customized gifts. Photographs should be preserved after digitizing! In the end, whether those scanned photographs and old videos are used for the personal pleasure or commercial benefits, they need to be safely kept. The safest method to protect and preserve all old archived photos is to upload them on platforms like Dropbox, Drive, or Cloud. Most of these are free services and offer considerable storage space. While being on Cloud and having an online presence, these pictures imported for use on Creative Cloud and other software like Adobe Photoshop for further uses. The most exciting and busy time of the year is coming. While the holiday season is all about partying and having fun, it’s also one of the best times to bond with your family over mundane yet fun tasks like photo organizing. Family members are your best resource when it comes to sorting and figuring out what’s worth keeping and what isn’t, and the holidays are a natural time for everyone to come together and cherish reminiscing over old memories with a glass of wine.  Getting started with the three-pile method If you’re that responsible photo keeper sibling, the best way to tap your family as a resource over the Christmas vacation is to get started on your own first. Be the Mississippi genealogy department and consolidate all your photos (and home movies) onto the living room floor and dive into it. We recommend dividing your photos into the “yes” and “no,” and “maybe” piles. The best way to do this is to make an initial first pass through your entire collection because the ones that are NOT likely to be discarded and the ones you won’t need at all are naturally going to stand out right away. Here’s a fairly helpful criterion to sort your piles: YES
 Ask your family to come over with their photo books The last thing you want to happen after putting so much time into organizing and consolidating your old family photos and video collection is for an auntie to find a stash of memorable photos you didn’t know you had. Ask your family to bring over all the albums they recovered through photo scanning service. Make sure they bring all the photos or videos lying around that they’d like you to organize. If they only have a few photo books, they could bring to Thanksgiving dinner, and you can sort those after stuffing yourselves with pumpkin pie. However, if they have huge bundles of your great-uncle’s scrapbooks or grandmother’s slides, have them over in time. Families that organize photos together, last together. Spend time organizing whatever you can before your family crashes for the holidays. Take the time to set aside any confusing photos you’ve run into, and then they’ll all be readily available to share with your loved ones as they arrive. We’re listing three common brick-walls that we’ve come across so far. Your family members will definitely help you sort them out.
 Don’t forget to create new memories too
Organizing your oldest memories or sending the negatives from the 1960s for negative scanning services is a wonderful responsibility and a family activity to tackle around the holidays, but don’t get too indulged in this that you forget to take new photos and update your digital library! All the work you’re doing to organize your collection and keeping it safe shows your dedication and is the perfect indicator of how imperative it is to stay on the top of your digital library always. If you already have that in mind, you’re on the right track! In case, you are a little behind, here’s what you need to do:
Vintage photo scanning services are not just a service; they are the embodiment of history, love, and bonding! As the members of the Greatest Generation, our great grandparents leave us, a part of our family history is lost too. The history of storytelling marks its beginning with families passing down history through centuries of beautiful sentimental tradition. But today, it doesn’t happen as much as it used to. In this digital age, lots of forces are chipping away at the oldest ritual of storytelling. Families no longer live together; people are separated by distances, moving out of their hometowns, and don’t have enough time to spend with their loved ones and relatives. Old family photos and movies aren’t able to be cherished in the family time because they’re on extinct formats like 8mm film, VHS and slides, which is not really accessible in today’s age. In a digital world where there’s a flood of technology and information at our fingertips, it’s easy to forget that some of our most lovable and important family stories are only alive in our minds as memories and in the minds of our aging closed ones.  Family storytelling – the world’s most beautiful tradition The bliss of family storytelling stretch far beyond the simple joy of listening to the older generation’s lovely recount stories of their youth, overcoming hardships, and, more importantly, how they witnessed the world evolving. Family stories enrich a deeper understanding of a family’s history in the young ones and play a considerate part in making children much more confident and resilient. In fact, research has it that knowing one’s family history is one of the best single predictors of children’s better emotional health and happiness. Children are really into stories; knowing their parents love story, historical events narrated by grandmas’ or on which farm did grandpa grew up, really interest them. Sitting in the living room with old albums and slides on a Sunday afternoon is considered the best family time. This tradition reminds the new generation that they belong to something more significant than themselves: their family. But how do we bring the long lost art of storytelling into today’s modern digital age?  Here at Scan South, we specialize in digitizing old home movies and photos. As a photograph scanning service, we believe that there’s a need to rewind a little with the art of storytelling through old, vintage photographs. It’s time to rethink family history, adapt it to our modern-day actualities, and enable it in the digital age. We realize how important it is to use the memories from the attic and make something shareable from them, like a custom photo book or slideshow. That way, not only your golden memories are safe and preserved, but their story becomes sharable for generations. Your stories matter Your family’s story is not meant to fade away with your broken movie tapes, cracked aging pictures, and the demise of loved ones. Modern-day storytelling is not a tough nut to crack, slight involvement of technology with some organization skills, and a profound love of preserving memories can help you in keeping the tradition of family storytelling alive. A digital version of your old dying negatives with Scan South’s negative scanning service and your dusted films reeking of old black and white memories can keep your family connected, help future generations conserve your family legacy and namesake. “If you want a happier family, create, refine, and retell the story of your family’s positive moments and your ability to bounce back from the difficult ones. That act alone may increase the odds that your family will thrive for many generations to come. - Bruce Feiler, The Stories That Bind Us (a New York Times article) What else could be a more amazing gift for yourself and your family than reviving the bliss of family storytelling in this digital age? Find out more about Scan South, as we preserve memories to last a lifetime. Although in the 1950s nitrate film was discontinued, however, if by any chance it’s still left in your collection, it could destroy your whole family legacy. The stories are not myths – the oldest film can burst into dangerous flames under the right conditions. Nitrate film reels sparked the 1937 Fox vault fire and were also responsible for fueling the MGM vault blaze of 1967. These fires were massively destructive, fatal, and erased huge chunks of U.S. film history stored and in the process. This old film is a deadly fire hazard and gives off harmful nitrate gas that can set your entire house on fire damaging movies, photos, and basically everything else. In this post, we are going to help you identify nitrate film in your memories archive. As we provide scan photo services in Jackson, Mississippi, we will explain to you the best course of action if you happen to find any. Why is nitrate film so dangerous?Nitrate film is made from nitrate cellulose, which is a chemical used in military-grade explosives. It’s so flammable that it even explodes underwater, and improper storage ignites the fire risk even worse. Nitrate cellulose releases a toxic gas that eats away any film stored without proper ventilation. Decayed nitrate film is even prone to catching fire, and can self-ignite at high temperatures (over 100 degrees Fahrenheit.) Even if the film doesn’t catch fire, the continuous decay can ruin the photos it stores. If you’re feeling concerned or anxious thinking about your old photos, calm down! Most films since the 1950s were made from either acetate-based safety film or polyester, both of which are way less flammable than nitrate. Still, there’s always more room for safety; we will guide you on how to safely store, handle and even digitize any old nitrate film.  Stages of nitrate film decayThe three main stages of nitrate film decomposition are: Stage 1: Fading images and orange film discoloration Stage 2: The film becomes sticky, smelly, and appears foamy and bubbly Stage 3: The film turns into crumbs of bad-smelling brownish powder Identifying nitrate filmIt’s not likely that your old film stash will have any nitrate film, but it never hurts to make sure that it doesn’t. At Scan South - Photo Scan Jackson in Mississippi, we suggest you look for the following signs to find out if you have any: Deterioration: If you notice film in any of the three stages of decay mentioned above, assume its nitrate film. But if the film smells like vinegar or is wrinkled, it’s most likely safety film. Labels: Check to see if ‘Nitrate’ is printed or embossed on the edge of the film. Some nitrate films have been copied onto safety film, which might have the words ‘Safety’ or ‘Nitrate’ printed on them. Dates:
How to store aging filmsDon’t have the emotional energy to give up on your vintage film? You can undertake the following steps to safely store nitrate film while minimizing the risks of fire and deterioration before you encounter any loss.
 Don’t wait for too long!On our blog, you will often find us writing about the short shelf life of your photos and home movies, but the risks of nitrate film weight a greater sense of urgency. We hope that you’re ready to store these vintage aging memories properly, even if you haven’t made up your mind for digitization yet.
Once you have decided to finally go for a film to digital transfer or negative scanning in Jackson, don’t forget to keep Scan South in mind for all of your digitization needs. Feel free to contact us with all your questions about the vintage movie film. We’d be more than happy to help! October 21st is widely celebrated as Home Movie Day, a day that is dedicated to celebrate and preserve the memories of evergreen home movies! We at Scan South, work a lot with home movies and so, we are going to cover some basic tips on how to care for film reel collection. With our 8mm or 16mm movie to DVD conversion, we handle and scan your film elements with the utmost care, and once we return the film materials, many clients ask us about taking care of original films. While these films often an original one-of-a-kind element from your memories archives, we will guide you on how to keep them safe as souvenirs of generations.  Preserving film reelsWe work with 8mm and 16mm film reels every day. Though your films may be all untouched and preserved in their original box, here are some efficient storage tips to maximize the longevity of your original material:
 How to handle film reelsHandling reels can be fun and rewarding, just be aware of the condition of your reel, and the condition you would want it to stay in. Here are some tips on how to handle film reels.
While 8mm film to digital conversion service is what we do, but we still acknowledge the essence these films have. Thus, properly handling and storing them is the key to preserve your old memories. |
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