Premium photo scanning and video transfer services in New Jersey
From 35mm slide scanning to VHS to DVD, NJ’s trusted choice for digitizing
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Our mission is to make preserving memories easy for New Jersey families. You can bring your scanning and digital transfer projects to any of six convenient New Jersey locations, and we’re pleased to visit your home for a doorstep pickup throughout the Garden State. Why ship overseas or across the country for irreplaceable VHS to digital services and photo album scanning when there’s an easy and affordable local option right here in New Jersey? Our company is 100% devoted to preserving the sights and sounds of the past, and we have a 60 person team with 30 years experience and millions of scans and transfers behind then. Digitizing is a project you should only have to do once if you pick the right company. We would be honored to be that answer for you.
Digitizing services offered to our New Jersey clients
Photo Scanning Service
Our scanning is at 600 DPI high resolution on professional-grade scanners. Whether scanning photos, frames, letters or oversized items, everything is cropped, oriented, optimized, labeled and kept in order.
Album & Scrapbook Scanning Services Available in NJ
Our expertise here is nationally recognized. We scan the delicate albums other companies won’t touch. All photo albums are returned as they were once scanned, and you may pick from full-page scans or individually cropped images.
Slides To Digital
35mm slides and negative scans are most common, but we are also capable of scanning rare format transparencies like 220s, 127s, glass plates, stereo slides and more. Scanning up to 4,000 DPI includes dust removal and optimizing.
Video Transfer Service
Our video tape transfers are clean and predictably and affordably priced. We digitize tapes to DVD or USB, including VHS, Hi8/8mm, MiniDV, Beta and more. All video to digital files are Mac/PC compatible.
Audio Transfers Services Available in NJ
Reel-to-reel audio and cassette tapes are the most popular choices for digital transfer, but we can also transfer vinyl, DAT and other audio formats. Audio correction is included, and you may choose .wav or .mp3 files to CD or USB.
Film To Digital
Film reels are captured on custom made transfer machines at up to 2K HD. We can deal with moldy reels, damaged reels or reels with sound for 8mm, Super8 and 16mm home movie film transfers. Digital files are available on DVD or USB.
Digital Organizing
Your entire digital media collection, de-cluttered, de-duplicated, and organized by our professional digital organizing technicians.
Unique Photo Book Design
Custom crafted and fully personalized photo book designs. Work directly with a designer with as much or as little involvement as you like.
Premium Event Slideshows
Slideshows combining a custom selection of photos, videos, music and more; personalized for any event by our team of expert designers.
Expert Video Editing
Turn hours of raw footage into something even more special. Perfect for creating highly videos, family documentaries and more.
3 Ways to get a digitizing project started in New Jersey
HOME PICKUPS
Too many boxes to move on your own? Complimentary home and office pickups are offered throughout the East Coast for projects over $300.
LOCAL DROP OFFS
130+ locations available for convenient drop-off. See which store is closest to you. Our drivers personally transport projects to our local lab for digitizing.
FREE SHIPPING
We accept mail-in orders from across the U.S. We’ll email a pre-paid UPS label or apply a shipping credit if you ship on your own.
New Jersey DIGITIZING DROP OFF LOCATIONS
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5 star rating from Satisfied New Jersey Clients
New Jersey Home & Office Pickup Service
Safe, doorstep pickups with optional Zoom video prep sessions
Many families have dozens of boxes or tubs of photo albums and VHS tapes. They can be hard to lift and challenging to organize. For many, having us visit their home to the heavy lifting makes all the difference, and we’re thrilled to do it. Doorstep pickups are easily scheduled based on the schedule below. You will get a call before your appointment where you can let us know exactly where you left your project (doorstep, porch, etc) and we will safely pick it up. Everything is packed in weatherproof bins and barcoded before being taken to our state-of-the-art lab for processing.
Once we have your photos and videos in hand, we do a detailed inventory and a phone session to make all of the decisions about the scanning process. But if you’d like to get a bit more prepared upfront, let us know and we’re happy to do a Zoom based virtual organizing session. One of our senior consultants will schedule a Zoom call with you to offer their expertise and to simplify the process of organizing and preparing for digitizing. Afterward, we will schedule a doorstep pickup to safely take the material to our lab and bring it back when the project is wrapped up.
New Jersey’s Proud History of Leadership in the Photo/Video Industry
Alfred Stieglitz
American photographer Alfred Stieglitz was born in Hoboken in 1864. He is largely credited with pushing photography to be a more accepted art form while it was still in its early stages of establishing itself as a creative medium.
Stieglitz is quoted as saying “In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.”
Dorothea Lange
Renowned depression-era photojournalist and documentary photographer Dorothea Lange was born in Hoboken in 1895. Her most famous image titled Migrant Mother was photographed in 1936. Her work is notable for humanizing the Great Depression as well as its impact on subsequent forms of documentary photography.
Daily Live Depicted
Though its connection to New Jersey served only to take advantage of lenient corporate stock ownership laws, Standard Oil of New Jersey commissioned a now fascinating series of photo documentation depicting the benefit of oil on daily life in the United States. The series of ultimately over 1500 prints and nearly 100 contact books was shot between 1943 and 1956 by a selection of the day’s greatest photographers. A sample of the collection can be found here.
Irving Penn
Born in Plainfield in 1917, Irving Penn was a fashion, portraits and still life photographer. He is perhaps best known for his fashion photography and is credited as being one of the first photographers to pose subjects against a simple backdrop
Drive-In Theaters
In 1932 Richard M. Hollingshed Jr., from Camden, New Jersey, was the first to patent the drive-in movie theater. Prior to this, versions of drive-in theaters and outdoor movies were recorded to have existed but were relatively limited due to challenging logistics. Hollingshed opened his first official drive-in location in 1933 in Pennsauken Township, NJ. The first film shown at this location was a British comedy titled ‘Wives Beware’.
Fort Lee
Before Hollywood had developed as the go-to location for film production, Fort Lee New Jersey saw a brief period as the film capital of the world. Fort Lee was significant to the film industry in part due to its proximity to Thomas Edison’s West Orange laboratory where he invented the world’s first movie camera in 1893. Several years later in 1907, Thomas Edison’s film company, ‘Edison’s Black Maria’, chose Fort Lee as the location for a short film it was producing. Fort Lee was chosen due to its varied and dramatic scenery. Due to this and it’s proximity to Manhattan by ferry, Fort Lee developed into the preferred location for film producers and studios at the time. At the height of its significance, Fort Lee was home to at least 11 active major studios. This continued until 1918 when a series of unrelated events (a coal shortage, historic winter, and ongoing influenza epidemic) eventually pushed film studios west to Hollywood.
Brian De Palma
Film director Brian De Palma was born in Newark in 1940. He directed iconic films such as Scarface (1983), Carrie (1976), and The Untouchables (1987).
