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Graduation Special

$75

Package includes:

• Scanning of up to 50 images

• Slideshow with motion & transitions

• Title sequence with motion collage

• Background music

• Auto-play disc in repeating loop

• Upgrades & custom options available.

Perfect for Open Houses!

Sales tax not included

Offer expires May 31, 2012

Photo and Video Tribute DVDs

What better way to honor your new graduate than with a tribute DVD. Relive the special moments and milestones in their lives by playing a custom DVD at your graduation open house.

As a full custom studio, Multimedia Memories can create a DVD exactly the way you want it. A classic slideshow is an easy and affordable way to showcase many pictures to play in the background. A slideshow with motion, collages, and musical timing, transforms the show into your story. And for your one-of-a-kind graduate, we can also design a one-of-kind montage with motion graphics that will have friends and family sitting up to take notice.

Whether it’s a classic slideshow or a one-of-kind creation, Multimedia Memories can design a DVD for your photos and videos that will suit your desires and meet your budget.

 

Custom Work

It’s what we do best, and why we’re different.

Our speciality is everything that transforms your photo and video into something new and special, as opposed to just a transfer to a different format.

We love creating a product that is special and unique for your treasured memories.

Our favorite service is a photo slideshow & video montage. This custom work does not follow a formula and, as a result, is as difficult to quantitatively measure as are your memories. While it involves a great deal of technology, it is art. It is created just for you, and, to our knowledge, is unlike anything our competition does.

But custom work isn’t just for a slideshow. We can transform video tapes, too. Whether it’s something as simple as scene-based chapter markers (you’ll want them) or cutting out the times you left the camcorder recording on the coffee table (trust, us, you did), or the ten minutes your kids recorded cartoons over your home movies (sure, blame the kids), we think you will want more than just a straight transfer to DVD.

That’s why we love what we do.

Valentine’s Day Idea

Do you still have your wedding video on video tape? This Valentine’s Day, surprise your spouse with a restored video of your wedding on a beautifully printed DVD. Our custom wedding package includes:

  • Transferring one VHS (or camcorder tape, up to 2 hours) to digital file
  • Filtering audio to remove tape hiss
  • One level of filtering video to correct for color deterioration, poor lighting, etc.
  • Adding precise chapter markers, such as: Procession, Vows, Kiss, Cake, First Dance, etc.
  • Adding background music, if desired
  • Personalized DVD menu
  • Custom printed disc in coordinating case.
  • Archival gold backup copy in paper sleeve.

Regularly $100, we are offering this Wedding VHS to DVD Package to our newsletter subscribers for $75 during the month of February. (Subscribe to the right.)

Not enough time to find the tape or plan for some extra features? Order a gift certificate, and we will reserve this special price for you.

Check out an example of our work.

New Year’s Resolutions

We all make them. We all break them. But if you have resolved this year to get more organized or spend some quality time with your family, Multimedia Memories can help you out.

Your memories aren’t like anyone else’s. And so we don’t have a cookie-cutter approach to anything we do. Unlike some studios, we don’t assign homework before you come to see us. If you want to organize and preview your pictures and footage before bringing in specific instructions, fantastic. But if the thought of sorting through dusty slides and mystery tapes overwhelms you, we’ll make it easy. Just bring them in, and we can take it from there.

Maybe you have box of disorganized photos or slides. We can scan and restore them, giving you easy to sort digital files. We can even create a photo book or a photo montage on DVD just for you.

Do you have a video tape orphaned by a broken video camera? Let us trasfer and transform it to high-quality DVD.

Mystery canisters of reel to reel home movies? We scan those frame-by-frame in high definition!

Is a new HD camcorder filling up your computer’s hard drive? We can put it on blu-ray disc, preserving the HD quality.

DVDs that no longer play or miniDVDs that were never finalized in the camcorder? We have forensic tools to recover lost data.

We’ll get it organized for you, in a hassle-free way, so you can get right to that quality time. And since we are a full custom studio, we can do as much or as little restoration and editing as you would like to get a final product that suits your needs.

You could say we tranfer home movies to DVD, but we really do more than that. We bring your memories to life.

Thankful for Memories

Some moments are just more memorable than others. They stick with us, coming to mind without conscious effort. They haunt us with the lingering sense of delights past.

I’ve recently had the pleasure of sharing such a moment with family and new friends. Though nothing life-altering nor even remarkable in circumstance, it was sheer joy — a bliss arising from nothing more complex than the mix of personalities.

And I barely touched the camera.

There are times for remembering and times for making memories. But when all is said and done, I’m glad I have one picture to cherish. Because as vivid as the memories itself may be, when we arouse our senses, we can feel like we’re right there all over again.

So make memories and enjoy the moments, but don’t neglect to spend a little time behind, and in front of, the camera. As time passes and memories begin to dim, you’ll be glad you did.

Then bring those treasured images to Multimedia Memories. We’ll tell the story behund those pictures with music, motion, and a style befitting the mood. We’ll bring those memories back to life.

And to Jorge, Ludwig, Frosty & Frodo – if you visit us again, I promise not to burn the bacon.

Top Ten List

The top 10 reasons to call Multimedia Memories this fall:

10. Your ten-year-old doesn’t know what he looked like as a baby.

9. You want to prove to your grandkids that you once had hair.

8. Where’s the power cord to the old camcorder?

9. Grandma’s not going to do the chicken dance again.

8. 250 wedding guests holding100 digital cameras and 60 camcorders, now what?

7. How do I play these tapes?

6. Be the envy of your friends — Instead of a Christmas card with one picture, send them a photo montage on disc or post it online!

5. You know you don’t want to spend your vacation scanning pictures.

4. Your memories don’t belong in a box.

3. The 11th anniversary of her 29th birthday only happens once!

2. You’ll remember what it was like to be a newlywed.

1. We’ll make you look goooooood.

Send us your own reason & we might just name next month’s special after it.

Vacations Live On

Chances are you brought back more than memories and a tan from your recent vacation. You probably brought back lots of images of that special trip or time together as a family.

Taking pictures and video clips is a great way for those special memories to live on. And the best way to bring those memories to life is with an easy to watch, and easy to share, DVD with a dynamic moving montage of your images.

Best of all, just by hitting “Play” you can return to the relaxation, inspiration, & fun of vacation whenever you want. Let the kids enjoy a past trip taken when they were too young to remember. Feel the sun on your face when you’re cuddled inside during a snowstorm. See all their smiling faces any time you want after they’ve left for college.

So, whether your favorite vacation was a destination tour, an island paradise, camping in the woods, or even a stay-cation, there’s a story to tell. And telling stories is what Multimedia Memories is all about.

Childhood in a Box

For Mother’s Day, I was blessed to receive three handmade cards from my children. Of course, each captured their creator’s personality perfectly, but one was particularly sweet. My son let me know, albeit with silly humor, that the ways I care for him are greatly appreciated.

It’s good to be appreciated, to know that the time and efforts we take for family and friends don’t go unnoticed.

Recently, a client brought me boxes full of movies – film reels and tapes in a variety of formats. Some organized, many not. His father had spent many hours behind a movie camera. Yet many more hours must have been spent putting those film reels in order, squinting at images a mere 8 mm wide to decipher their contents, then splicing them together to create longer movies. Oh, the time that must have taken!

“That’s my childhood,” said the son. “My childhood is in that box.”

Is your childhood in a box? This year, consider showing your appreciation for those who devoted themselves to capturing memories. Honor their labor of love by updating to a Multimedia Memories custom DVD.

Your memories, brought to life!

Graduation DVD Special

For a limited time get a special package on a DVD slideshow for your graduate.
$75 Package includes:

  • High resolution scanning of up to 50 images (photos, slides, negatives, newspaper clippings, documents…)
  • Slideshow with smooth motion and transitions
  • Title sequence with a moving collage
  • Background music from your collection
  • Auto-play discs and blu-ray authoring available.
  • Upgrades and Custom options available.

Perfect for your Graduation Open House!
Offer expires May, 31, 2011.
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