Redlands Video Transfers & Editing

03/31/2023

Happy Easter!

Easter is a time to share the love with friends and family. Save more while we help you preserve your memories - good for video tapes, film, and photo transfers.

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03/30/2023

I was helping a customer today with an audio cassette from his Aunt Sally. It was recorded in the 80's by one of his cousins. He is planning to find some photos or even film from his archive of media and create a mini family documentary as Aunt Sally shares her stories.

we are excited to be a small part of your family documentary.

10/25/2019

Educational Workshop!
December 14th from 10-Noon

If you want to preserve your family story for the next generation? If you want to make watching home movies fun? If you think family history is fun? If you have too much stuff and don't know what to do with it? We have some solutions for you to try. We have 5 Ways to preserve and to share your family media. Come to our educational workshop and have a great time. Space is limited so contact us soon to reserve your seat.

Workshop is December 14th 10 A.M. to Noon

5 Ways to Preserve and Share your Media with Friends and Family!

Our workshop will be exciting as we share with you 5 ways to preserve your family media with your friends and family. We will customize the workshop to help you and give you ideas for your project. We have some simple methods of preservation with equipment you already have, as well as some services you may not know that we provide.

Be sure to make some time on December 14th to be part of this limited educational workshop. Our minimum class size is four and we have space for only ten (10) people. You don't want to be left out!

Our workshop in October was fantastic. We had great response and everyone came out with specific and individual ideas for their projects and their media. We want to help you preserve your family story!

Book your seat today!

Call Vanessa at our office to get on the list for the November 9th workshop.
909-793-3575

If you have any other questions or concerns please let us know.

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10/25/2019

If you have more media than you know what to do with? If you want to make new memories around your old memories? If you think family stories are important? We have created an educational workshop for you! It gives you 5 easy ways to preserve and share your media starting today! We spend one on one t...

09/25/2019

Private Workshop!
October 12th from 10-Noon

If you want to preserve your family story for the next generation? If you want to make watching home movies fun? If you think family history is fun? If you have too much stuff and don't know what to do with it? We have some solutions for you to try. We have 5 Ways to preserve and to share your family media. Come to our private workshop and have a great time. Space is limited so contact us soon to reserve your seat.

Workshop is October 12th 10 A.M. to Noon

5 Ways to Preserve and Share your Media with Friends and Family!

Our workshop will be exciting as we share with you 5 ways to preserve your family media with your friends and family. They will include some simple easy to do at home methods with equipment you already have, as well as some services you may not know that we provide.

Be sure to make some time on October 12th to be part of this limited workshop. We have space for only ten (10) people. You don't want to be left out!

Book your seat today!

Call Vanessa at our office to get on the list for the October 12th workshop.
909-793-3575

If you have any other questions or concerns please let us know.

Click here for an update from Redlands Video Transfers!

09/25/2019

We have a workshop coming up on Oct 12th from 10-noon. It is for anyone that wants to save their memories for their family, and make it fun to experience. Come have some fun!

If you have more media than you know what to do with? If you want to make memories around your old memories? If you think family stories are important? We have created a workshop for you! It gives you 5 easy ways to preserve and share your media starting today! We have years of experience helping fa...

09/06/2019

"What to do with Family Media Now?" Workshop Rescheduled

Thank you for all of your great response to our workshop! We learned that we needed to start advertising earlier than we did to get a better turnout. We are planning our rescheduled workshop for Sat. October 12th. We will show you 5 ways to preserve and share your media with friends and family!

Next Workshop is October 12th 10 A.M. to Noon

5 Ways to Preserve and Share your Media with Friends and Family!

Our workshop will be exciting as we share with you 5 ways to preserve your family media with your friends and family. They will include some simple easy to do at home methods with equipment you already have, as well as some services you may not know that we provide.

Be sure to make some time on October 12th to be part of this limited workshop. We have space for only ten (10) people. You don't want to be left out!

Book your seat today!

Call Vanessa at our office to get on the list for the October 12th workshop.
909-793-3575

If you have any other questions or concerns please let us know.

Click here for an update from Redlands Video Transfers!

09/05/2019

We have created a workshop for you! It gives you easy 5 ways to preserve and share your media starting today! We have years of experiencing helping families just like yours that want to preserve their family history and share it with their posterity. Join us for this free workshop! Space is limited....

09/05/2019

My Why #2:

Just because you won’t mail your media, doesn't mean your transfer company won’t mail it for you. There are large companies that have transfer services as part of their company, but do they do them in house or locally? Most of them don’t! So how do they get these videos or film transferred? They ship them across the country and even overseas for the transfer to digital media.

My mentor shared a story about a certain big box company and one of his customers video transfers service. This customer went to the big box store and had them transfer all of their old media over to DVD. It took several months for them to get it back, but what they got back was not their home movies. They were aghast by this, but as any reasonable person was they went back to the company and asked for their correct media. As the customer service representative tried to work with them, she asked, “How do you know it isn’t your video?” the answer was simple, “We aren’t Chinese!” This couple’s complete family video library was lost somewhere and never recovered. This big box company’s system was to place all of these old VHS, and film into a large container and ship it to China for transfer and then ship it back. The sad part of this story is that there are two families that have lost their home movies and not just one.

My personal suggestion is to use a credible video, audio, and photo digitizing service that is local to you. It may be cheaper to send it to an internet company that transfers old media, but what is the risk? There are plenty of local services that do a great job at digitizing media. Our system is simple. We use quality Panasonic VHS players that send the video to a computer. We record that video minute by minute and hour by hour. Once the entire tape has been recorded to the computer we convert it into a simple usable format for our customers including DVD and MP4 formats. We always encourage our customers to get a backup of their media either on DVD or USB so that their media can be shared. We know that the more a video file is shared the longer it will be preserved for future generations.

Why would I never mail my personal media ever? Because my home movies are so personally valuable that I am not willing to risk losing them. My father passed away over twenty years ago. I will never see his face again in this lifetime, but because of my old videos of him, my children will always have a relationship with their grandfather.

09/03/2019

My Why #1:

Each home made video, audio, film, or photo are usually a one of a kind. It’s like “duh” doesn’t everyone know that! Many people do but they don’t think about the uniqueness or rarity of a master video. Those images, sounds, events that are on that media can never be replaced.

I was watching the movie “Castaway” with Tom Hanks. Tom plays an employee of FedEx that is flying over the South Pacific. His flight is caught in a storm and the airplane crashes into the ocean. He gets to a deserted island and starts to itemize his supplies for survival. Among his supplies he finds a VHS tape. During his course of trying to stay alive as a castaway he destroys the tape and uses it as rope to tie his raft together. I applaud him for his Boy Scout skills, but was that VHS tape my son’s first steps, or my grandmother’s last dying wishes, or my wedding video that has mom in it before she died?

You can understand how devastating it would be to lose such a valuable piece of my history. We all know that FedEx, UPS, and USPS drivers are not perfect and that packages are lost in traffic accidents, or truck fires, or just lost in the mail. It isn’t such a bad thing when it is your iPhone, or a TV from Amazon, because those can be replaced. But when it is your one of a kind, master / only copy of your child’s birth, or your parents wedding video, or grandpa’s reel to reel tapes that he sent home from Korea, those are irreplaceable. And there is no amount of money that can replace them.

If you insure your package with UPS, FedEx and the USPS the only insurance you receive is for the specific dollar amount of the insurance. There is no insurance that can turn back time so you can have your babies first steps, or your wedding day again. Many home movies are once in a lifetime events. There was never a second take and rarely a second chance to repeat that event.

Every video transfers service in the world doesn’t guarantee that your media will arrive safely to their office, nor to your home when they send it back. What they do guarantee is to replace the media that your home movie was on. So if the mail service loses the VHS tape of your wedding, the only guarantee is that the transfer company will pay you the price of your VHS tape which is about $2.

Have I made it clear why I will never send my or your personal media in the mail. I hope so. But there is another area of this that concerns me even more.

My Why #2:

08/21/2019

Why I will never send my old media in the mail. EVER!
Have you ever seen the movie “Castaway”?

I will never send my personal media in the mail via USPS, UPS or FedEx, EVER! Why? I used to work for UPS back in the “just out of high school days”. I was a truck loader and unloader. I worked the graveyard shift and was quite good at what I did. My job was to create walls of boxes that were tightly fit so that it wouldn’t fall and stuff as many packages as I could behind said wall. I would build these walls and do my best to get every piece of mail in the truck. I don’t know how many of those trucks and packages actually got to their intended destination but I assume most did. I also know that there were some that didn’t.

I have been in the video production and editing industry for almost 20 years and there are a few things that I have learned that many people not in my industry don’t think about. That would be the value that each piece of media has. When we record video for our clients we create backups of backups of backups. I learned this lesson the hard way. I was recording a once in a lifetime event called “Redlands my Redlands” here in Redlands, Ca. It was in celebration of the 200 year anniversary of the city. I had prepared everything and setup as planned. I hit record and went for it. But it turned out that my process had a flaw that I didn’t know about. And that night was one of the worst in my lifetime. I had recorded nothing. Yes, I said “NOTHING”. This group was never going to do this performance ever again. Did I feel like a heel? Absolutely! I never work without a backup anymore, and when you have a master copy and no backup such as your wedding tape, and for some reason it gets lost, damaged, or utterly destroyed, you will be left with nothing.

So here are a few things I wanted to share with you to help you know why I will never send my or anyone else's personal media in the mail, unless specifically requested.

My Why #1:

(Let me know if you want to read more)