Why Transfer My Movie Film?

Your home movies are important to you and your family and there's no better way to protect, share and enjoy your photos than to convert them to digital.

Digital is forever. An investment in digitizing your home movies is money well spent not only for the peace of mind it can provide but for the many new uses you'll discover for those old movies and the new smiles you'll create by sharing and enjoying your memories in a more contemporary way.

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Why Choose DigMyPics to Scan My Movie Film?

DigMyPics is the leader in a broad base of personal digital archiving technologies. No other company offers the breadth of expertise, experience, offerings and technology to help you preserve your personal archives.

• Professional, university trained artists, photographers, and videographers working on your behalf.



• Your film is captured frame by frame, and is cleaned and lubricated as part of our basic service.



• Direct communications with the team of professionals that are actually working on your archival project.



• Free, Easy, online viewing of your new archives once their complete.

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What Are My Movie Film Transfer Options?

Digitizing your memories is not a one size fits all kind of process. We offer a lot of different options so you can customize the process to your needs. Visit our Getting Ready page for tips on how to start getting your movie film ready to archive. You are encouraged to give us a call or send us an email so we can discuss those options with you and ensure you are getting exactly what you are expecting.

• You can choose to order your editable AVI files on an external hard drive in addition to your movies on DVD! This makes it easy to edit your Movie Film at home.  
  
  
• You can give a title to each reel. The Videographer will make each reel a different chapter on your DVD menu.
  
  
• If your Movie Film has seen better days, you can add color correction to you transfer services.
  
  
• We can transfer sound from your Movie Film for a small handling fee.

When ordering movie reel transfer services we recommend that you download, print, and fill out our Movie Reel Transfer Worksheet PDF to help you organize your movie reels. After you have filled them out, print and include them in your scanning order..

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Who Will Be Working With My Movie Film?

DigMyPics! hires only imaging and graphics professionals with college degrees in the arts. We pay competitive wages and offer benefits like health, dental, and employer matching 401(k). These offerings allow us to hire the best people and give opportunities to those who want to develop a career in videography while giving you the benefit of knowing that your irreplaceable artifacts are in good hands.

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How Long Will It Take?

Below is our current turn around time. It is updated as frequently as required and also posted on the left sidebar of every page. We offer a rush service if you need them in a hurry; please contact us if you need us to expedite your order.

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How Much Will It Cost?

  

We charge by the foot. See our Movie Film Transfer FAQs to find out how to estimate how many feet your reel(s) contain.

 

Footage	Per Foot Price
Less than 1000 feet	$0.30 / foot
1000 - 3000 feet	$0.21 / foot
More than 3100 feet	$0.15 / foot

Add 10 cents per foot if your film contains a sound track. Most home movie film is silent.


Add 10 cents per foot if your you would like your movie film color corrected.

Pricing includes 1 DVD set,  film cleaning, digital film conversion and splicing. Did you know we can also offer your movie reels in an editable file format? Visit our Movie Film Transfer FAQ for more information.

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How Do I Get Started?

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Fill out the order form on our website.

Print
Print the mailing label. Want to use FedEx? It's built right in to our website. Our partnership with FedEx allows us to pass down a 10% FedEx discount on labels you print through our us.  You can even schedule FedEx to come to your door and retreive your boxes of photos and bring them to us.

Organize and Label
If desired, group your photos and clearly label the groups with a name and the order that you would wish them to appear. Visit our Getting Ready page for some guidelines.

Don't have time to organize?  No problem. Just send us your box or boxes of photos and well take care of it for you.

Ship
Carefully pack up your photos and ship them to us. Visit our Shipping Tips page for suggestions.  We'll let you know as soon as we receive them.

 

 

Once we finish processing your photos you're able to view all of your photos on our website. We then ship everything back to you.

It's really very easy.

You can watch our back stage tour video  to see exactly how our process works.

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