Universal Digital Services offers many services to restore, transfer and create your treasured memories onto modern media such as DVD, DV tape, and Hi-Definition media such as Blu-Ray Disk.
The lists below are only some of the many services we offer. If you don't see a service you are looking for, please give us a call. We are continually adding new services all of the time.
Our services include movie film transfer, video tape transfer, photographs and slides transfer as well as restorations and repairs. We also create movies, slideshows, and business presentations complete with backgroud music, narration, and special effects.
In addition, we do celebratory and memorial presentations such as birthday parties, wedding videos, funeral presentations, and business events. And, if you have old audio media you want converted, cleaned up and transfered to new media such as CD or DVD give us a call because we do those too!
We utilize Hollywood and broadcasting caliber software and hardware to perform restorations, effects, audio overlays, etc. to provide you with the most professional product offering anywhere. We don't print and stick a paper label on your DVD, we only use the highest quality media and print your full color labels directly on the surface, just like the major production houses.
Our production equipment is capable of generating nearly any format of media from Standard Definition television to full 1080p High Definition uncompressed streams. So you have a choice on how high a quality you want on your project. We can do television standards conversions too, like NTSC, PAL, and SECAM.
Give us a call to help with your next project.
Movie Film
Our specialized equipment doesn't restrict us to one or two sizes of movie film. Our in-house engineered and fabricated equipment allows us to quickly reconfigure it to accept any film gauge. This is also something no other transfer facility can boast about.
Some of the more common film gauges we can scan are:
- 8mm
- Super 8mm
- Single 8mm
- 16mm
- 35mm
- 65mm
- 70mm
Our movie film editing services include multiple levels of restoration depending on your need and budget:
Straight Transfers
Includes film cleaning, repairing, no editing or corrections. Intended for customers who want and have the capability to do their own editing.
Basic Editing
Includes Straight Transfer plus color correction, noise reduction, background music, and a menu & transitions as needed.
Custom Editing
Includes instances of any special transitions, zooms, pans, customer specified or supplied music, special scans added, lines of text for special titles or captions, scrolls, subject splitting, etc.
High Definition
At processing time, we can scan your movies at high definition resolutions so you can get the clearest pictures, most vibrant colors, and best retention of your memories for the future.
Sound Movies
Although rare in the consumer market, if you need sound movie video conversions give us a call. We can handle those too.
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Video Tape
Got videos? We have equipment to scan, convert, transfer, and edit any format of video tape you might have. The biggest problem facing consumers today is that it is just too much trouble to get all of the different equipment out and set up to watch our old tapes and movies, if it's even available. We can even mix different formats into one presentation so you only need a DVD player to watch all the years worth of video you have taken. Let us bring your memories together into a single format you'll want to watch and show your children over and over again.
Some of the more common formats we can handle are:
- VHS
- VHS-C
- S-VHS
- Betamax
- Betacam
- 8mm
- Hi-8
- DV
- Mini-DV
- D8
- HDV
- DVCAM
- DVCPro Formats
As new formats are released to the public, we add it to our format list so you are assured that we can handle your projects now and in the future. If you don't see a format you're interested in, give us a call. We may be able to help anyway!
Straight Transfers
Includes no editing or corrections and is intended for customers who want and have the capability to do their own editing.
Basic Editing
Includes color correction, noise reduction, background music, and a menu & transitions as needed.
Custom Editing
Includes instances of any special transitions, zooms, pans, customer specified or supplied music, special scans added, lines of text for special titles or captions, scrolls, subject splitting, etc.
High Definition
We can scan your movies in High Definition resolutions so you can get the clearest pictures, most vibrant colors, and best retention of your memories for the future.
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Celebratory & Memorial DVDs
Celebratory
Do you have tons of pictures or video from your child's birthday party or family vacation? We can put those into an enjoyable and easy to view DVD presentation complete with music, special effects, and more.
Weddings
Didn't get your wedding video taped? Most people don't. But we can create a wedding video montage with your pictures. We can even include any video you may have taken informally. Complete with music, transitions, effects, and menus. Makes a great anniversary gift!
Memorials
These presentations are wonderfully received at viewings and provide a rememberance of all of the goods years those who have passed graced family and friends with. Made up of pictures, video, newspaper clippings, and anything else the family feels would contribute to the memory of their loved one. The DVD can be viewed over and over again to keep memories alive and introduce the young to their ancestory. Memorials can be created afterwards too. Don't let the memory of your loved one wither with time. Let us help keep them alive in your family forever.
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Photographs, Negatives, and Slides
We are specialists at photographic scanning, restoration, and printing. We can take your volumes of photo albums and slides and turn them into DVD presentations complete with background music, transitions, special effects or whatever you want to make your memories fun and easily viewable at any time right on your TV. Viewing photo albums on a television is much more enjoyable than looking at a static album. Everyone in the room can see the pictures in large glorious detail and at the same time!
In addition, we offer restoration services to bring back the original colors, remove tears and scratches, and repair water and fire damage.
The following are our photographs, negatives, and slides presentation services.
Conversions
Straight Transfer
Includes no editing or corrections and is intended for customers who want to do their own editing.
Basic Editing
Includes color correction, noise reduction, background music, and a menu & transitions as needed.
Custom Editing
Includes instances of any special transitions, zooms, pans, customer specified or supplied music, special scans added, lines of text for special titles or captions, scrolls, subject splitting, etc.
High Definition
We also can scan your pictures in High Definition resolutions so you can get the sharpest pictures, truest colors, and best presentations on your regular or big screen High Definition television.
Repairs
Light Repairs
Minor blemishes, dust, scratches, and overall color correction.
Medium Repairs
Significant blemishes, dust, scratches, minor tears, and overall color correction.
Heavy Repairs
Major blemishes, dust, scratches, most tears, stains & color bleeds.
Miracle Repairs
NOTE: Two things we can't repair: a broken heart & the crack of dawn!
Photo Printing
We use only the highest quality professional level Seiko Epson scanners, printers, papers, and inks that are matched for compatibility. This combination provides the absolute best in color reproduction, surface finish, and the longest ink and paper stability available in the industry. Our process results in prints that are guaranteed smudge-, scratch-, water-, and fade-resistant. They also provide light fastness/print longevity for up to a 200* year album life.
We offer nearly 1000 combinations of paper finish and print size configurations to suit your every need. Our prices page contains a full listing of print options available.
Below you will find the most common print finishes available for your project.
Print Finishes
Photo Glossy
Delivers a smooth, glossy finish for everyday photos with the look of true photographic prints. Ideal for creating brilliant photo quality color and life-like images. Our most economical paper.
Premium Photo Semi-gloss
Is a remarkable media that has the look and feel of true photographic paper. Ideal for printing displays or scenic color images, this semigloss finished paper delivers beautiful results for all to enjoy. Due to its semi-gloss surface, lamination is not recommended.
Ultra Premium Photo Glossy
Is the new standard for extraordinary images. This paper is ideal for framing and for long lasting, professional quality prints. It has an ultra smooth and bright white finish, and is Epson's heaviest weight consumer-level glossy paper. Other advantages are its fast drying, smudge and water resistant surface.
Ultra Premium Photo Luster
Wedding, portrait and fine-art photographers have traditionally used luster paper for their photos. Epson now offers new Premium Luster Photo Paper to digital printmakers. Premium Luster Photo Paper delivers highly saturated prints by offering maximum ink coverage and a high D-Max for the most precise photographic reproductions. Its 10-mil RC base gives prints a photographic feel, and keeps the paper cockle-free. Like all of Epson's innovative media, this paper is engineered to give you the highest resolution and color saturation possible. Our highest quality photographic paper is simply the best!
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* Ink lightfastness ratings up to 200 years based on accelerated testing on specialty media, stored in an album. Actual results vary according to media, image, display conditions, light intensity, humidity and atmospheric conditions. Epson does not guarantee longevity. Visit www.wilhelm-research.com for more information.
Audio LP Records and Tapes
Do you have years worth of collecting vinyl records and tapes only to find many aren't being released in the newest formats. We can help. We'll digitize those those old analog recordings, remove hiss, clicks, and other noise and then burn those to the newest media formats such as CD and DVD. You'll then have those memories in a format that will be available without distortion or loss for decades to come. Plus you'll be able to load them on your MP3 players and IPods too!
Some of the more common audio formats we can convert for you are below.
LP's
Cassette Tapes
8 Track Tapes
- Standard 8 Track
- Dual 4 Track Quadraphonic
Repairs
Even if your tapes are damaged, don't worry, we can repair them too.
If you don't see a format you're interested in, give us a call. We are continually adding formats as our customers need them.
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