Preserve Your Yesterdays

Present Your Todays  

 Plan Your Tomorrows

& Don't Forget Your Pets!!

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  Media Management

Locate Your Memories 

Digitize

Preserve & Organize Old Photographs and Videos; Digitize selected items

Consolidate

Consolidate and de-clutter a media collection from multiple devices and locations;

Library

Master chronological Media Library of digitized collectin;  

backed-up in different locations 

Locate

 Maintenance Plan to keep future collections organized and easily locate memories

Today's Media Collections

With the ease of taking unlimited numbers of  quality photographs & videos on our smartphones  that can be immediately backed up in the Cloud, it is not unusual for people to take thousands of photos every year.  Our  digital collections are becoming vast, and   spread across different devices and storage media , remotely in the cloud,  and on photo storage and social media sites. 

Selecting items to include in a Family Story Collection is VERY  Challenging if we have to sift through SO much DIGITAL  data,  even before considering our ANALOG things. 

It becomes much easier when everything is digital and located in  one place, sorted by time period, events and people. 

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 Digital Collection

Digital Era  now provides us with amazing  capabilities to capture and record everyday moments and events, with no restrictions on storage and retrieval. The technology is continually improving with better resolution photos and video, larger file transfer and  LIMITLESS storage in THE CLOUD,  with the promise of access to our data, uncorrupted FOREVER.   It also gives us the tools  to save and view all of our information, and there are  many useful apps  to make media editing and other everyday tasks  much easier to do.

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The problem is that with  these rapid advancements,  "new" technologies are also  rapidly becoming  obsolete.  Digital cameras have already been largely replaced by smartphones, CDs  are "vintage",  and DVDs  are being replaced  by Streaming services. Even digital formats  keep changing. Your phone pictures could now have a .heic  file extension instead of the "universal"  .jpeg.

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With the ease of taking unlimited numbers of  quality photographs & videos on our smartphones  that can be immediately backed up in the Cloud, it is not unusual for people to take thousands of photos every year.  Our  digital collections are becoming vast, and spread across different devices and storage media , remotely in the cloud,  and on photo storage and social media sites. 

Analog Collection

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Before the digital era we recorded  our memories on various types of "film".   These at least 20 years  old  analog collections can already be quite  sizeable and include anything from vintage photos & other fragile memorabilia,  old home movies and videos  and  photographs in scrapbooks,  photo albums or stored lose in , for instance, old shoe boxes

Preserve  Your Analog Collection

Digitize to Include in Your Life Story Presentation

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Old media is very susceptible to deterioration.  Sunlight, heat and humidity can be particularly  damaging.  Paper can get torn and stained, very old paper can even crumble and ink will fade.  Photographs can be stained from fingerprints, and solvents.  They can  get folded, creased, or torn,  scratched and speckled with dust and debris.  Film shrinks over time and will be damaged if run through a projector.   Oils from our fingers breakdown the cellulose in negatives. Tapes warp and curl and get caught up in recorder heads.  

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We will provide you with strategies, customized to your individual needs to:

• Preserve your old analog collections with  robust storage options. 

• Sort your photos and select only the best  from a certain time  or event  and  discard extras  such as  duplicates or very similar,  forgotten scenes and  out-of-focus shots. 

• Organize your collection so that you can easily locate  your special memories in the future.

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Digitizing is the best way to preserve favorite analog items and include them in a modern media collection.  We can provide guidance on the options, if you want to do this yourself  or use a digitizing service.

Guidance to an Organized Digital Media Library

The digital media strategies that we recommend and can guide you through include:

• Re-digitize  your DVDs into  more modern formats, such as MP4.   DVDs  can be corrupted and  are becoming obsolete and  are not editable.

• Locate all digital media, whether they are  in the cloud,  uploaded to on-line sites, stored on individual  computers, tablets or smartphones  or storage media such as USB flash drives or SD disks. 

• De-clutter in a similar manner to  your Analog collection.

• Consolidate with digitized  old media in a central Master Media Library organized in chronologically labelled folders  at the top level and  sorted further in sub-folders.

• Backing up your whole library in more than one location.  

• Regular house-keeping to keep your library organized and up-to-date. 

Project Progression