Preserve Your Yesterdays
Preservation Solutions
Preserve & Protect Analog Collections
Do you need help?...
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Overwhelmed by the size & variety of your collection?
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Concerned about deterioration?
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Wish you could watch old videos?
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Want to digitize your collection but don't know where to start?
Analog Media Preservation
Whatever the project -- from preserving and digitizing treasured memorabilia, organizing a digital family media library to creating beautiful keepsake Photo books and meaningful slideshows for important life events --
Survey
Checklist to determine the types and size of the collection, the condition of the media and how it is stored and organized:
Types & Size
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Loose Photographs, slides, negatives,
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Film reels - 8mm, 16 mm, super8
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Videos - VHS, VHS-C, Betamax
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Video Cassettes - 8mm, mini-DV
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Documents - letters, certificates, newspaper clippings
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Albums and Scrapbooks
Condition
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Old photographs that need restoring or are stuck to album pages.​
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Damaged tapes
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Deteriorating paper
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How & where they are stored
How & Where Stored​
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Attics, Garages and Basements are not ideal due to temperature fluctuations & humidity
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Sunlight may be fading Framed photos on your walls
Organize Media
Strategies to sort and organize Analog Media
Photos
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Sort by when taken, event, people, pets etc.. in them
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Photos stored in labelled albums with captions are the easiest to go through; boxes of random unlabeled photos presents a challenge. ​
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De-clutter - discard extras such as duplicates or very similar, forgotten scenes, out-of-focus shots.
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Select the best photos from a certain time or event.
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Organize in labelled storage & create a digital index, to easily locate special memories in the future​
Storage
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Safe Media specific storage solutions best suited for your collection - acid-free, archival folders and boxes
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Robust long-term storage options - airtight plastic containers
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Digitize
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To preserve favorite photos, videos and other memorabilia in a modern media collection
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At home DIY digitizing options
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Digitizing service recommendations