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Curt McCarty
I just wanted to let you know how very pleased we were with your work in converting our old family films to DVD and for the added narration at our last visit. Everyone was very pleased with the results.
I was especially grateful for the “extra” mile you and your group went to to assure our discs were top notch. I’d be pleased to recommend you to anyone I come across for whom this kind of production work would be indicated.
All in all I’m pleased with the result and the professional treatment we got while at your studio. Thanks to all who we re-involved. Feel free to quote me.
Extremely professional results and service
Scott is absolutely amazing! Extremely professional results and service. Don’t waste your time with those cheap services at places like Costco where they send your film and old reels out possibly getting lost in the process. Lifetime memories should be entrusted with someone like Scott. Try it, you will not be disappointed.
Fantastic is the word I would use
Fantastic, is the word I would use. My parents had taken 8mm movies of the family back in 1957 thru 1972. Had all the families, both sides, and friends, in most of the movies. Some of these old movies were 60 years old. Many hours of family movies, the old days. Scott, who I spoke to, the owner of Legacy Digital, assured me customer satisfaction was his goal. He spent some time explaining the process to digitize the film. Really, when was the last time you spoke to the owner of a business, on his cell phone. Long story short, the results of the film to digital were fantastic. The film is cleaned before the transfer begins. I showed my 90 year old aunt some of the film, she had tears in her eyes. She was about 28 years old when some were taken. She saw her dad who died in 1960, saw her son, died in 1986. If you have old or new film that needs transfer to digital, go with the best, Legacy Digital. Scott and his staff will take the time to transfer it correctly and to your satisfaction.
Exceeded my greatest expectation
This is long overdue… I just have to say “Thank You” Carter and the team at Legacy. My mother passed last year and I had about 5,000 feet of 8mm film. I’ve dabbled in video and then multimedia myself since High School and figured I’d get to it someday. Well, when my mom passed it was time to get after it.
Rather than tackle the job myself I entrusted the folks at Legacy to handle some cherished film that was 50+ years old. It was a little of a rush job, but Carter worked on it and had it ready for me sooner then promised. It was all on a external drive I purchased (at his recommendation) and my boxes of film were returned to me, spliced, labeled and in excellent condition.
The digitized files exceeded my greatest expectations. The end result is better than the original film itself. HD, color corrected, no flicker and perfect frame rates. I cannot say enough about how great my experience was with Legacy. I highly recommend their services to anyone considering film conversion. Absolutely fantastic!
Thank you for brining the reels back to life!
My entire family wants to thank you for bringing the reel to reels back to life on DVD.
Although the tapes were old, the color and content were of the highest quality. Many family members lost photos in the California fires, so you can imagine the joy when they saw themselves on DVD.
I highly recommend your trustworthy service to anyone wanting to preserve memories from reel to reel tapes.
Better than what we saw with a projector
Very satisfied, but you have to be patient.
I had 1700 feet of old (1950 – 70’s) 8mm and Super8 film digitized. Converted to both SD and HD formats onto a disk drive that I supplied, so files are quite large (20GB for 8″ reel – 400′). But the higher resolution (than DVD using mpg2 compression) is better for my purpose of video editing. HD is 1920×1080, but of course the image is still the original 4 x 3 aspect ratio (which makes the picture part 1440 x 1080) so as expected there are black bars on either side — but resolution is as good or better than the film (some sites estimate 8mm film resolution to be around 800 by 600).
It took about 7 weeks (they said 6 to 8 weeks), so be prepared to deal with that turn-around time.
But quality was superb — with the knowledge that film stock does degrade/fade over the years. But the video files that they produced was what was on the film, and in fact is _better_ than what I’d seen before with a projector, because now the lighting is consistent and doesn’t fade or blur towards the corners.
I always recommend Legacy Digital
I enjoyed my conversion with Carter today at the Carlsbad Village Faire.
I told him how pleased I was with your work for me on the 16mm film conversion and the slide conversion.
Any people passing by at the time I was near your booth, I extolled the excellence of your service. Any time I ever get the opportunity to do so, I always highly recommend your company.
It is always a pleasure to be able to honestly recommend products or services which I have found to be truly excellent.
Completed in a Timely Manner
Pleased with the quality of the video. Had a large job and it was completed in a timely manner. I would much rather support small business and know exactly where my previous memories are as they are being worked on. I’ll be going back.
Legacy Digital is Awesome!
The guys at Legacy Digital are awesome!! I’ve had them work on about three different projects for me over the last 7 years, and the work had been top notch on all three services.
The first: we found some very old 8mm reels of my dad and my grandfather. When I found them, I recognized what I thought they were, but I didn’t even have a machine to play them on. I’d heard that Legacy did a great job with direct transfer (not recapturing on a screen) and color correction. Boy was I thrilled with the result!!! These movies were better (more brilliant in color) that what I remembered and it was amazing to see it all on a nice large HD TV instead of on an old grey 8mm screen, with a projector whirring loudly in the background. He offered me options to have it directly on a hard drive if I wanted to edit, onto a DVD, or bluray disc. We opted for the DVD since it worked on more of our players at the time. He uses a higher quality DVD than other outfits so we should be able to keep and enjoy these old films for a long time.
The second: several years later, we came upon an entire box of slides in our attic some time ago, and I kind of held on to them for a while, trying to decide whether to transfer them to digital. I was SOOO glad I did! There were some absolute treasures in there. Pictures that brought back all kinds of memories and even some pictures I don’t remember, but was able to recognize folks I hadn’t seen in a long time, again because of the great quality of transfer.
The third: not long after (about 4 months ago) we found the rest of the family’s old Super 8 movies. I found the projector as well, but by this time I was already convinced that if I tried to play these old movies on an old projector without cleaning them and without knowing if the projector still worked…I might ruin the film. Scott had showed me before how they clean and lubricate the reels BEFORE doing the transfer, so I had them take this batch as well. Got them back, and watched them several times with popcorn. What a great family night activity!!
They did everything I could have asked for and more. I give them my unqualified recommendation!!
Top notch picture and color quality
Thanks so much for the work done on my film transfer. The picture and color quality is top-notch. Thanks!
I Highly Recommend Legacy Digital
Highly recommend Legacy Digital Productions, they were very good at follow up and communication regarding our order. Everything was processed and shipped promptly.
Blank areas on the VHS tapes were edited out, a service not done by many digital transfer companies. A friend who is very tech knowledgeable was impressed by the quality of the files created and stored on the thumb drive.
We are enjoying being able to once again see special times enjoyed with family and friends.
Thank you, Legacy Digital Productions!
I would use Legacy Digital again and again
I just has an old VHS of our ship’s decommissioning given to me and I had no idea what to do with it. Legacy took care of that (DVD and MP4) and were very friendly and professional. I would use them again and recommend them to others.