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Let us use our 31 years experience in video transfer and conversion to preserve your family's memories. No matter what format you have, we can convert it to DVD.

Video Tape Converted to DVD	VHS and VHS-C 8mm, Hi-8mm, Digital 8mm Mini DV Video tape repair.	$24.95 for up to 2 hours $24.95 for first 1/2 hour 9.95 for each add't 1/2 hour $24.95 for first 1/2 hour 9.95 for each add't 1/2 hour $19.95 to restore to GWO for transfer.
Movie Film Transfer to DVD
	8mm Movie film 8mm Sound 16mm Silent or Sound	10 cents per foot. $9.95 set up charge for entire order 10 cents per foot. $9.95 set up charge for entire order Add $6.00 to entire order for sound See lots more movie transfer details below.
	35mm, 126 slides 110 slides Prints Negatives Digital Camera files	See note below.
Make a Tribute Video or Book	Authoring a DVD Slideshow	Walk in to any King Photo store and turn up to 40 of your favorite family photos in to a real DVD Presentation for weddings, Graduation parties, reunions or as a tribute for a funeral. Choose a sound track from dozens of popular titles.

Still photos can be treated two ways on a DVD disk. They can simply be scanned if needed and saved to the disk as individual digital files in jpeg format. For more information on scanning of prints see: Shoebox Scanning. This disk of files is great for looking at in your computer and for printing 4x6s but it does play as a slideshow in most home DVD players. These slideshows must recorded to the disk a different way. This "authoring" of the DVD allows for effects to be added like background music, text, and transisions like disolves or fades from one slide to the next. 

Regular 8mm Film
	silent		Because monitors differ, the images on the left are not actual size. Standard 8mm with sound is very rare. 8mm and Super 8mm are the same width but Super 8 uses smaller sprocket holes and a larger image area. This means the same size projected image will need less magnification and appear sharper and less grainy. Super-8 films are 18 frames per second-and movement looks SLIGHTLY smoother. Standard 8 films are 16 frames per second. Many Kodak 8mm cameras from the early 1970's were 8mm sound.
	with sound
Super 8mm Film
	silent
	with sound

	On the left is the common 50 foot reel of Regular 8mm film. The Pinkie Test: The hole in the center of a reel of Regular 8 is smaller than the hole in the center of a Super 8 reel. A finger won't fit in the center hole of a Regular 8 reel whbut will usually fit in a Super 8 reel.

The film lengths can often be determined by the visual indicators on each film reel -- see image. 8mm 3 inch reels used in the 60's and 70's were not usually marked but they are 50 feet and run for approximately 3 minutes.

How to recognize if film is silent or has sound Only films that have magnetic band(s) have the capability of having sound recorded onto them. Simply having a magnetic band on a film does not mean the film definitively has sound. It could still be silent if no sound was ever recorded onto it. Silent (no bands) Super-8 Normal 8 With one, or two, Magnetic Bands Super-8 Super-8 Normal 8 Normal 8

silent
Reel Type	8mm Film	Super 8 Film	Super 8 Film
silent	at 16.67 frames/second	at 18 frames/second	at 24 frames/second
50 feet	4 min	3.5 min	2.5 min
200 feet	15 min	13 min	10 min
300 feet	22 min	20 min	15 min
400 feet	30 min	26 min	20 min
600 feet	44 min	40 min	30 min
830 feet	-	55 min	42 min

with sound
Reel Type	8mm Film	Super 8 Film	Super 8 Film
(with sound)	at 16.67 frames/second	at 18 frames/second	at 24 frames/second
50 feet	-	3.5 min	2.5 min
200 feet	12 min	11 min	8 min
300 feet	18 min	16 min	12 min
400 feet	24 min	21 min	16 min
600 feet	35 min	32 min	24 min
830 feet	-	43 min	33 min