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VHS Transfer to Flash Drive: The Graduation Tapes Worth Hearing Your Name Again
Categories: Tips & Tricks, Preservation A graduation day can feel like a blur: finding the right clothes, gathering everyone together, getting to the auditorium, and trying to be in the moment while also making sure someone is recording it. Years later, a VHS tape...
Audio Cassette to Digital: The Bedtime Stories a Grandparent Recorded Just for You
Some family recordings hold a whole scene in just a few seconds: the quiet of a bedroom, a favorite book opened to a familiar page, and a grandparent’s voice beginning, “Once upon a time…” A cassette recorded especially for a child could become part of the bedtime...
Photo Scanning: The Same House and Garden, Season After Season, All in One Box
Categories: Tips & Tricks · Preservation Some family photographs seem to tell a story even before anyone explains them. There is the house with a young oak tree in front, then the same house years later, with branches reaching over the roof. A backyard appears in...
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Digitization Tips for Long Island Families
These are the digitization tips we find ourselves repeating on the counter every week — which formats are most at risk, what actually causes tape and film to fail, and how to decide what is worth transferring first.
Why we write them down
Most people only face this problem once. A parent downsizes, a relative passes, a basement floods, and suddenly there is a box of unfamiliar formats and no clear idea what to do. These digitization tips exist so you can make an informed decision before spending money — including the decision not to transfer something.
What you will find here
Practical guidance on VHS and camcorder tape, 8mm and Super 8 film, photographs, slides, negatives, audio cassettes and reel-to-reel. We cover storage conditions, warning signs of deterioration, realistic costs, and what to expect from a professional transfer versus a DIY attempt.
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Ready to move from reading to doing? See video tape transfer, photo and slide scanning, 8mm film transfer or audio digitization, or contact us with a question about your own collection.
Further reading: the Library of Congress publishes free preservation guidance for home collections.
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