Memory Keepers - 8mm & 16mm Film Conversion to DVD: Pricing
Memory Keepers
Naperville, Illinois
Memory Keepers You make the memories...We'll help you keep them

8mm & 16mm FILM CONVERSION TO DVD: Pricing

Please read our information below, and visit our FAQs and About pages.

 

8mm/16mm film

.........$0.20/ foot

Includes preparation and repair as needed, cleaning, and digital frame-by-frame capture.
Sound Film

add $0.05/ foot

 

Original Standard Def. DVD
Includes edited DVD with menu (holds up to one hour of footage), DVD case, cover and disc titling.

 

...................$15

DVD Copy
Includes same packaging as original DVD and makes a great gift and/or back-up.
Original High Def. BluRay                                  
Includes edited BluRay with menu (holds up to two hours of footage), DVD case, cover and disc titling.

 ......$0.06/foot

BluRay Copy           
Includes same packaging as original BluRay and makes a great gift and/or back-up.

...................$40

......................$10

Data files to new 320 GB hard drive         $80

Data files to new 500 GB hard drive         $100

Data files to customer hard drive             $20

At Memory Keepers, we value your memories like they are our own. We ask you to consider the following items should you compare our service to others:

  • Your movies never leave our care, custody and control. We do the work ourselves and do not ship your film off to a transfer house on the West Coast.  Your movies will be expertly transferred by a mature and extremely competent technician.

  • The quality of the final product is dependent on the use of superior equipment and processes.  This is the single most important aspect of choosing a provider.  We digitally capture each frame of film using the best equipment.  8mm film offers the equivalent of 800 lines of resolution.  Since we capture 1080 lines of resolution, we clearly are maximizing what your film has to offer. 
  • Other film transfer providers use inferior services which can include filming a projected image off of a screen, using fixed-rate capture processes (which typically create video at a speed different from the speed the film was orignally shot at), using multiple reflection surfaces between the film and the capture device, using older analog VHS capture devices (and then transferring to DVD, which still only yields analog VHS quality), etc.   Even if another provider offers frame-by-frame digital capture, they are most likely using a 1 CCD or a 3 CCD camera which maxes out at 480 lines of resolution.  Our frames are 1920 x 1080, those providers can only offer you 720 x 480 frames.  In addition, many other providers do NOT clean and condition your film.