Archival media digitization in Spokane

Save your memories before they fade

Home videos on VHS tapes, boxes of photographs, slide carousels, and old negatives hold decades of family history. They also deteriorate, and the equipment to play many of them is disappearing from homes.

Digitizing turns them into files you can watch, share with family, back up in more than one place, and use in a video or slideshow. I handle the work carefully, because I know what these are: not just media, but memories.

Our dedicated digitizing site

Looking for guides on each format, how to identify old media, and how to protect your tapes? Visit Old Box of Tapes, our site devoted to digitizing VHS, U-matic, photos, slides, film, DVDs and CDs.

What we digitize

• VHS home videos: tapes to digital video files
• U-matic 3/4-inch tape: professional videotape to digital files
• Photo scanning: prints and albums to high-quality digital images
• Film slides: 35mm slides and slide trays to digital
• 35mm film: negatives and film strips to digital images
• Medium format film: roll film negatives and transparencies to digital
• DVDs and CDs: home-burned discs transferred to files you can keep

Who it is for

• Families preserving home videos, photographs, and slides
• Anyone preparing a funeral or memorial slideshow or tribute video
• Organizations, schools, and churches with historical footage and photographs, including nonprofits with decades of history
• Documentary filmmakers who need archival material
• Estates and families sorting through a loved one's collection
• Photographers digitizing their own film archive

How it works

• Tell me what you have and roughly how much.
• I give you a quote based on the format and quantity.
• You get your media to me. Ask about drop-off options.
• I digitize and organize the files.
• You receive your digital files, and your originals come back to you.

Go beyond digitizing

Once your media is digital, it can become something new: a family tribute video, a memorial slideshow, an organizational history film for your business, or an anniversary video. Ask about editing your digitized footage and photos into a finished video.

Formats we digitize

Pick your format for details: VHS tapes, U-matic tapes, photo scanning, film slides, 35mm film, medium format film, and DVDs and CDs. Not sure what you have? Describe it or bring a sample and I will help identify it.

Where we work

Our operating area is the Inland Northwest. 12 Acre Films is based in Spokane, WA, and offers archival media digitization across the region.