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Top 3 Ways How Videos Brings Us Together

Photo from: http://themetapicture.com/family-bellies/ Over the summer a lot of things has changed for families. Many of us had captured footage on many different devices. Maybe some of you even have old tapes that are sitting on the shelves for a long time. Before most of us return to school and work, it’s a good time right now to just relax with everyone and enjoy the last few days of August and watch what has happened this year so far! Here are the top 3 ways on how to use family videos to get us closer together: 1) Gatherings help bring […]

betamax conversion toronto
Recent News, Video Conversion

How to Identify Your Video Format

There are many types of video formats that has come out in the past 50 years. I will explain the most popular formats during the past 50 years as we get many people bringing in tapes they can’t identify.   The most common one is the VHS tape. It came out around 1980s and is slowly phasing out today. Despite of this, we still see VHS tapes being sold at stores. The magnetic tape is half inch in width. Image from http://en.wikipedia.org   Betamax looks similar to BetaSP, but they are not. Betamax is an older type of tape, it came […]

SD vs HD
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Why Transferring Home Movies to HD is Not a Good Idea

Transferring from standard definition to high definition is not a good idea because your increasing the size of a video by blowing it up. This method is also known as up converting. A standard VHS, VHS-C, Hi8, Regular 8 video tape has a standard definition (SD) frame size of 720X480. High definition (HD)  frame sizes are typically 1920X1080. There are some other HD sizes as well, for example: 1280X720 or the older format 1440X720 (which is rare now a-days). 1920X1080 can also be written as 1080p and 1280X720 can be written as 720p. These numbers represent how many pixels are […]