Types of Media You Can Digitize
As you’re going through your belongings and cleaning out your home, you may come across plenty of old media that modern technology no longer supports. Don’t fret—you haven’t lost these memories to the continuation of time!
While no one uses reel-to-reel players or VCR players anymore, the technology to transfer such forms of media exists and is accessible to anyone. Before you throw out your obsolete media formats, find out which types of media you can digitize so that you can preserve your family memories digitally!
Photos and Photo Negatives
The most popular items that people digitize are their treasured photos. Whether you have priceless prints from the early 1900s or your parents’ pictures from a disposable camera at Disney World, some services can scan them, touch them up, and transfer them to a high-quality digital format.
If all you have left of your photographs are the negatives, there’s no need to worry—you can digitize photo negatives and regain the memories that you thought were gone forever. Your photo digitizing service should work with you to determine the best digital photo format to save the pictures as each project may require a different type of file.
Photo formats you can digitize: prints, slides, negatives, medium format, large format, and many more.
Film
Before magnetic videotape existed, there was film. Valuable among collectors and connoisseurs, film comes in many shapes and sizes. If you have antique film, it may be difficult to trust a digitizing service to handle it with care—but you don’t need to worry at DiJiFi. Our film professionals care about the history and value of your fragile film—no matter its condition or format. Your film will be returned to you unharmed, and the digital file will capture everything you loved about the classic, frame-by-frame format.
Film formats you can digitize: 16mm, 8mm, Super 8, 35mm, 9.5mm, 17.5mm, 22mm, 28mm, microfilm, and microfiche.
Video
With the creation of video cassettes and videotapes, movies and home recordings became far more accessible. While you may have thrown out your old VHS player and MiniDV or 8mm camcorder, you can still digitize these tapes to an easily shareable video format. Digitize all kinds of professional and consumer videotapes to MP4 format to ensure that they stay accessible forever.
Video formats you can digitize: VHS, 8mm, Hi8, MiniDV, U-matic, Betacam, Betamax, digicam, DVCAM, HDCAM, helical scans, Mii, 1: broadcast tapes, DVDs, and many more.
Audio
You might uncover audio media that you don’t remember having as you sort through your belongings. Audio as a form of media evolved quickly over the span of a hundred years, so the different formats you can digitize vary in size, shape, and quality. You can transfer many audio formats to digital—vinyl records, answering machine cassettes, and reel-to-reel audio tape, just to name a few.
Audio formats you can digitize: reel-to-reel recordings, cassettes of all sizes, 4-track tapes, 8-track tapes, vinyl records, and MiniDiscs.
At DiJiFi, we have in-house specialists for all the different types of media you can digitize who care about both the results and the original media format. We also digitize paper documents and can provide you with an OCR-enabled file. If you have any questions about any of our digital conversion services, feel free to contact us!