Digital Movies - Convert your family videos into digital files

Are your family memories LOCKED inside your home-made videotapes?  Wouldn't you love to have easy access to these movies - and share them on a DVD, a video iPod, or YouTube?

Family Technology Associates is pleased to offer Digital Movies - a new service that will allow you to make your video memories available on all of these products - and any new services that may surprise us in the future.

View some of Fred Litt's videos uploaded to YouTube:

1. Memories of Allendale, NJ

2. Memories of Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Digital Movies provides you with the highest video quality at an affordable price with the greatest viewing flexibility.

Our Digital Movies service will convert each of your videotapes into a high quality digital Windows AVI video file.  These files can be viewed and edited on any Windows or Apple PC.

You give us your videotapes - we return to you a high speed external hard drive filled with lasting memories (Maxtor external drive pictured at right).  We use an external hard drive to store your videos as each hour of digitized video is about 13 GB (giga-bytes).

When you receive the external hard drive from us, you simply connect this drive to your PC.  You will immediately be able to view these files using Windows Media Player.  Best of all, these files can be imported into most popular video editing software packages – which you can use to create a DVD, an iPod video, or a YouTube movie.

How to do I get started? 

Send us your videotapes.  That's it.  We will ask that you place a white label on each tape with a simple description of the videotape's contents.  We will use this information in naming each of the digital video files.

What do I get? 

Depending on the number of videotapes that you request to be digitized, we will

1. Provide you with for an high speed external hard drive with state of the art high speed USB and Firewire connections.   The size of the hard drive will depend on the number of videos.
2. Convert each of your videotapes into a high quality digital file using Microsoft's DVD quality DV AVI format.
3. Name each of your files using the description you provide.
4. Return to you the original videotapes, your new high speed external hard drive with cables, and instructions for your use.

How long does it take?

Typically, one to two weeks, depending on the number of videotapes involved.

What is the cost?

Our fee depends upon the number of videotapes you provide to us - and the length of each one.  Each of your videotapes, whatever the length, will be stored in its own digital video file.

The fee to convert the first videotape, up to one hour in length, is $295 -  including the external hard drive.  Each additional hour (or part) of this first video is an additional $100.  Therefore, if the first video is between 1 and 2 hours in length, the total fee is $395.00.

Each additional videotape will incur a minimum fee of $100 for the first hour and an additional $100 for each additional hour.  

Discounts available for projects requiring over 10 videotapes to be converted.

Can you create the DVD or iPod/YouTube video for me?

Yes.  We charge an hourly rate for video editing/production.

What if I have more questions?

Call Fred Litt at 201-315-4943.