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Transfer, Scanning & Rentals
Tapes, photos and film degrade faster than you think... even well-stored professional formats! And they can become completely unplayable. Don't wait to transfer them to a more long-lasting format! Do you have a large library in different formats? Big documentary project? Archiving for a library or school? Memorial or tribute for a family member? Dozens of boxes of documents? No problem!
As a seasoned TV/film editor and colorist with over 270 credits, I have over 30 years experience with all kinds of video formats and decks. Not all equipment is created equally! I have chosen legacy gear that has proven to provide the highest quality, and I am constantly researching the best way to transfer each kind of media. And because of my low overhead, I can offer very competitive rates.
NEW FREE SERVICE: WE KEEP A PERMANENT BACKUP OF YOUR FILES! Never again worry about your photos, films, videos, audio recordings or documents being destroyed by natural disaster or theft.
RENTALS
Production & post gear, vintage decks, more...
Serving the greater LA area, all rentals are fully insured, and handled through the trusted sharing site "ShareGrid." A/V Gear Guy Graham "Gray" Jones has over 390 positive reviews as of November, 2020. He specializes in legacy A/V decks and edit computers and laptops, but also provides more modern production and post equipment like cameras, lenses, tripods, gimbals, lights, backdrops, mics, sound recorders and more.
VIDEO TRANSFER
Most video formats from the last 50 years...
Over my decades in the industry, I've shot and edited on vintage formats like Betamax and 3/4" U-Matic, and professionally used virtually every other video format up to the present, and I also have 135 TV credits as a colorist. I guarantee no other conversion service in town comes close to my level of expertise and experience.
FILM TRANSFER
8mm, Super 8, 16mm, 35mm Premium Wet Gate Transfers
We now use Rank Cintel for our 16mm and 35mm film scans in HD and 2K, yet our prices beat lower quality transfers! We do premium wet gate scans of 8mm, Super 8, 16mm, and 35mm, with or without audio, with rates starting at $19.99/reel. Bulk rates are also available.
PHOTO SCANNING
Photos, Negatives, Slides...
Get your photos out of the storage boxes and closets, and turn them into digital versions that can be easily copied to your phone, shared with others, and backed up safely to the cloud to be protected from fire, flood and theft. We use the highest quality scanning methods, not the lower quality document scanners some services use to save time. Plus we can scan the handwriting on the back of the photo or face of the slide too -- we're not aware of any other company that does this!
DOCUMENT SCANNING
Scanning with OCR, shredding...
Everything else is going digital... why not your documents too? Get rid of all your boxes of paper, and free up space in your home or office! Protect against fire and theft, and search them easily with OCR (optical character recognition - included). Are they sensitive? We'll shred them for you afterward too!
OLD DISKS
Floppy, Iomage Zip & Jaz disks...
Do you have old floppy disks, or Iomega Zip or Jaz disks? Let me transfer them for you! I can put them on a USB thumb drive, CD or DVD, or hard drive. You'd be surprised at how much can be recovered, even from 25-30 year old disks! And you never know what memories, old photos and documents might be lost on the disks.
AUDIO TRANSFER
Audio cassette, vinyl, DAT, reel to reel...
Don't trust the cheap audio cassette-to-mp3 converters you find on Amazon! They offer sub-par conversions to a "lossy" codec -- this is not how you should archive material that is generally only transferred once. We only use full cassette decks, and we transfer in the uncompressed AIFF format. We can also provide version in smaller compressed AC3 or MP3 files that can easily be copied to your phone or computer.
ABOUT US
About, Testimonials, Promos, Payment, Policies...
As a seasoned TV/film editor and colorist with over 270 credits, I have over 30 years experience with all kinds of video formats and decks. Not all equipment is created equally! I have chosen legacy gear that has proven to provide the highest quality, and I am constantly researching the best way to transfer each kind of media.