Trusted by Hollywood. Chosen by Families for 24+ Years
Simple packages or pay by the reel! Fair pricing w/ higher quality! Plus our 100% Satisfaction Guarantee!
Other companies lock you into a one-size-fits-all box. Legacy Digital offers the same simple straightforward pricing plus real flexibility. Choose to pay by the number of items or save by paying for only the media we convert. Then tailor your order with premium options like higher resolution transfers, professional color correction and grain reduction, so the memories you share look their absolute best.
With Legacy Digital you have options! Higher resolution, grain reduction, color restoration. We do it all. Every job is priced to fit your unique needs. We can even archive entire collections like we have for others. Thousands of reels? No problem. Thousands of videotapes? Sure. More photos than you can count? We can do that too. Slides, negatives, audio tapes, and just about every piece of legacy media you have. We convert them all.
ALL WORK DONE IN-HOUSE
FRAME-BY-FRAME HD/2K
100% SATISFACTION GUARANTEE
Convert 8mm, Super 8 and 16mm Film to Digital
We’ve safeguarded over 1 million memories - with a 100% Satisfaction Guarantee that puts your family’s legacy first.
When the producers of Spielberg needed his childhood films converted at the highest quality for the documentary, they came to Legacy Digital Productions
"If you want the highest resolution film transfers possible with crisp, color correct video and without cropping, then Legacy Digital is your best choice. Nobody does it better at an affordable price!"
~ Scott Foster - Founder
- More than 20,000 families have trusted us. And so have Hollywood studios, studio execs, universities, municipalities, libraries and more.
- Every reel, tape, and photo is digitized in-house – never outsourced overseas.
- If you’re not thrilled, we’re not finished.
- We’ll redo it at our expense – even cover return shipping.
- And if someone else can produce a visibly better product we will refund your money.
Legacy Digital Offers Higher Quality for about the same price + options! ★★★★★
How it Works
And you’ll have the best quality transfers available at a fair price!
Collect, inventory, pack and drop off or ship your media
We receive your media, prep and clean it, digitize it
You rediscover past memories with family and friends
Film Transfer Options
Standard 3″ Film Reel
Gold
Platinum
Pro 2K
Destination Mediums
* Hard Drive must be provided to or purchased from us.
Included:
Flash Drive, DVD, Blu-ray
Optional:
Hard Drive*
Included:
Flash Drive, Blu-ray
Optional:
Hard Drive*
Included:
Flash Drive
Optional:
Hard Drive*
Price Per Foot/Reel (50 ft.)
$17.50
$14.00
$27.50
$17.50
$35.00
$22.50
True “Frame-by-Frame” scanning
Touchless scanning
Cold LED lighting technology
Film cleaned, reconditioned and lubricated
Multiple Destination File Formats
Compatibility guarantee
Advanced grain reduction
Post-edit to adjust color, saturation, contrast and exposure
Convert 8mm, Super 8 and 16mm Film to DVD
Do it once with Legacy Digital
We’ve been transferring film since 2001. Over the years, companies have come and gone. Sadly, we regularly receive calls from people just like you who chose to have their film transferred others who didn’t do a very good job. Maybe they were cheaper. However, after already paying once, they ended up coming to Legacy Digital to redo the work because they are simply dissatisfied with the other company’s end product.
We will do a great job converting your film. That’s what really matters. Plus, you won’t be charged per reel. You will only be charged for the total number of feet transferred. That means you can send us 20 half-full reels and you won’t pay the full “per-reel” price like other services. Our estimator assumes full reels, but our clients typically pay a little less.
So keep reading for more information, or, click the Free Estimate button at the top or anywhere on this page and we’ll give you an instant estimate based on what you want to have done. We’d love to serve you.
See the Legacy Digital Difference
HD & 2K include the boy
Standard Def crops him out
With Color Restoration
Without Color Restoration
The true magic of what we do is in our film transfer process. While most of the others are focused on churning out film for the lowest price possible, we focus on quality.
Learn MoreUse our online estimator tool or give us a call at (888) 405-2685. We are always here and happy to help you understand your options - and to see if we are the best fit. Call us.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Below are the most common questions we get about coneverting film reels to digital format. If you have other questions, please give us a call. We're happy to answer them.
Higher quality means bigger files, and bigger files need a bigger drive. We scan film with far less compression than most high-volume labs, and we can even deliver MOV or ProRes files that are larger still, so we keep the fine detail and color heavy compression discards. We charge only what the drive costs for the storage your project needs, with no markup, so a larger drive isn’t an upcharge, it’s simply the room your higher-quality transfer takes.
Usually, yes, and often better than expected after color correction. Some film is degraded beyond a perfect image, but we deliver the best result the film can give.
Yes. Once loaded, Technicolor is scanned frame by frame in HD or 2K with optional color correction, exactly like our other film formats.
Technicolor cartridges must be opened and the film loaded carefully to avoid damage. The flat $5 per cartridge covers that extra step. It is never discounted.
About $19 each: roughly $14 of footage at the Gold HD special ($0.28/ft for ~50 feet) plus a flat $5 handling charge per cartridge for the extra care they require.
MP4 by default, or MOV/ProRes on request, on a flash drive or hard drive, and optionally on DVD or Blu-ray. Your original reels come home too.
Yes. We handle reels from small to very large, including the substantial reels common in documentary and institutional collections.
Yes. Sound 16mm carries an audio track that we read in sync as we scan, so your video plays with its original sound. Sound film is 10 cents more per foot.
Often, yes. 16mm carries enough detail to reward the higher resolution, which is why Professional 2K is a popular choice for it.
From $0.28 per foot at the Gold HD special (regularly $0.40). Because 16mm holds more detail, many clients choose Platinum or Professional 2K; see the film hub for all three tiers. You pay only for the footage we actually transfer.
Some companies still project film onto a wall or sheet and record it with a camcorder. Legacy Digital never cuts corners.
From Hollywood Studios to Your Family Home Movies
The Same Hollywood Technology That Preserves Blockbusters - Now Protects Your Family Films
We use the exact same professional equipment and processes trusted by:
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The Academy of Motion Pictures in Hollywood (MPAA)
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USC School of Cinematic Arts
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UCLA School of Theater, Film & Television
That’s why editors at Sony, Paramount, Disney, Marvel, and countless other studios come to us – and why more than 20,000 families have chosen Legacy Digital for their most precious films.
Your reel-to-reel film is converted to DVD, Blu-ray, USB, or digital files with Hollywood-grade precision — no flicker, no cropping, no loss of detail.
The Legacy Digital Difference: Your home movies aren’t just “transferred.” They’re preserved with the same care and technology that protect Hollywood classics.
The Legacy Digital Difference
Our customers say it best:
800px“I had boxes of 75-year-old Kodak negatives. Legacy Digital brought them back to life – better than I imagined.”
– ★★★★★ Zhe Zhang
“The scans were clearer than the originals. Now my kids can see moments I never thought I’d get back.”
– ★★★★★ Dana K.
With hundreds of 5-star reviews, we’ve helped families rediscover their most precious memories - safely, quickly, and affordably.
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While the other film transfer companies offer lower-tech Standard Definition running transfers at 720×480 resolution known as 480i (345,600 dots), Legacy Digital’s Hard Drive and Blu-ray options provide true Frame by Frame scanning at 6x their resolution giving you a much better end result.
Our 1920×1080 (2,073,600 dots) full HD 1080p resolution using laboratory grade optics that blow away the competition. This means you end up with a much cleaner and clearer picture – the highest resolution for transfers currently available in the film transfer industry today.