Pro8mm Presents:

Don’t Delete My Memories! The Home Movie Conundrum Made Simple

Home Movies are one of our most endeared assets. When you are watching home movies you are immediately taken back to that time and place, and the heart felt emotion of watching the story of our lives.

Pro8mm, the experts in digital remastering of home movies on professional state of the art equipment for over 40 yeras is offering a free seminar which explains options for personal digital asset management. A myriad of questions arise when you consider all the options available today to consolidate our personal moving image assets on both film and tape. 

By attending this seminar you will learn:

• Best practices for preserving and protecting your home movie originals
• Why your home movies should be scanned to file format and put on a Hard Drive instead of a DVD
• Various types of scanning systems and the quality they render, simply explained
• Scanning options: Standard Definition vs. High Definition; one light vs. full scene-to-scene color corrected
• Compressed vs. uncompressed files
• How to figure out what you have: Super 8, Regular 8, 16mm
• How to take an oral history
• An overview of the social responsibity of sharing home movies, and how to share them on  Facebook, iPads, iPhones, YouTube, etc. the right way
  

  See a variety of different transfer samples so you can make the most educated decision about your own archive, as well as take a tour of our Burbank facility.
  

  Holiday Promotion will be announced! Give the ultimate home movie gift this season at a price that makes it affordable.

  Our Speakers:

    Rhonda Vigeant is an expert on the subject of Home Movies. For the past 25 years Rhonda has been working with celebrity clients and famous families in the archiving of their legacy. She has been a member of AMIA (The Association of Moving Image Archivists) and has served as chairperson of the Small Gauge Committee. She has hosted and participated in Home Movie Day Events, and was a speaker at the Physical Evidence Conference in 2009 on the topic of Home Movies As Physical Evidence in Research Initiatives.

  Phil Vigeant has centered his professional career on pushing the tiny Super 8 frame to its maximum potential. Credited with the invention of Super 8 negative film and custom 16:9 Super 8 camera modifications, his company Pro8mm has developed workflows that parallel those used in Hollywood. This created the opportunity to use the powerful tiny medium in hundreds of professional projects for television, motion pictures, music videos, commercials, independent features, documentaries and archiving of legacy footage.