Preserve Your Yesterdays
Present Your Todays
Plan Your Tomorrows
& Don't Forget Your Pets!!
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Media Management
Locate Your Memories
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
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:
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Preserve your old analog collections with robust storage options.
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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.
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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:
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Re-digitize your DVDs into more modern formats, such as MP4. DVDs can be corrupted and are becoming obsolete and are not editable.
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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.
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De-clutter in a similar manner to your Analog collection.
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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.
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Backing up your whole library in more than one location.
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Regular house-keeping to keep your library organized and up-to-date.