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Photos and Slides to DVD
Our philosophy:
Our Photos-to-DVD slide show montages are individually created incorporating creativity and artistic design. Most companies rely heavily on "canned" routines to move from one photo to the next, resulting in a stilted video exhibiting disconnected movement.
With our thoughtful attention to detail, we design a DVD that sensitively reflects the mood of your pictures, music, and titles, thus creating the perfect DVD for graduation / wedding / anniversary / retirement / end-of-season team celebrations or funeral / memorial tributes.
What we do:
- Clean, and scan your photos or slides into the computer.
- Tastefully crop pictures.
- Remove facial blemishes. Red-eye removal is extra. Please ask for price.
- Enhance color or contrast and make ready for television's broadcast color schemes.
- Import scanned and corrected pictures onto the storyboard.
- Incorporate titles, music, movement, and transitions between pictures.
- Encode the production, author, and burn to DVD-R.
- Using your scanned photographs, create a label and case cover to complete your customized DVD.
- Photo Restoration is extra. Please ask for prices.
To Get Started:
- Compile all of the loose pictures that you want to include (photographs of any size up to 8" x 10"; 35mm slides, stereo transparencies, newspaper clippings; event programs; certificates; diplomas; etc.). Portraits larger than 8" x 10" can be shot with a digital camera for an extra charge. Arrange photos in order according to the story you want to present.
- Number your pictures (writing lightly in number order "1,2,3,...", use photo-safe pen or small round stickers (no Post-It-Notes) on the back of the pictures; do not use crayon or a pen that would smudge or stain your photos as they are stacked together). Cover-up any stickiness from tape, Post-It-Notes, or glue on the back of your pictures. Do not use letters like a, b, c, etc. Use numbers only 1-200, 300, etc. Our software auto numbers the pictures, so it treats your number 122a as 123 thus throwing off your carefully selected picture group for the music chosen. We charge at editing rates to fix this.
- Video clips can also be incorporated into your photo montage.
- Decide on number, content, and placement of titles. Email your titles to sales@startecproductions.com with instructions on placement to insure accuracy.
- Compile your music. Supply us your songs on original CD or email the mp3 file of that song.
- Email your titles and song list to be used for the back of the DVD cover (optional).
Prices:
- Photos and slides are $1.35
each. Requires two weeks. Call for rush prices.
- Each photo receives
special care to give you the best picture possible. This treatment
is included in the above price and consists of custom cropping,
color-enhancing, and removal of minor facial blemishes, if any, on your
pictures. Ask for prices on red-eye removal.
- Picture restoration
(in addition to the special treatment listed above) is available.
The pricing is determined by the amount of restoration required.
- Titles are $7 each.
- Songs are $7 each.
You supply them on CD or email. Grouping
a number of pictures to the song length is an extra $3 each.
- Video Clips are $20
each for a 2 minute clip. Add $2 per extra minute for that clip.
- Custom DVD Master
is $25. Copies are $15 each. Each DVD Master and Copy is customized with
one of your pictures as cover art for case and DVD label. If additional copies are ordered at a later date after pickup, we have to charge the DVD Master fee of $35.
- VHS Tape Master is
$35, Copies are $20 each.
- Each VHS Tape
Master and Copy is customized with your picture as cover art for case and
VHS tape label.
- Slides cost more to
scan because more care goes into each slide. Slides used for photos
to video are $.50 more than the cost of a picture scanned for photos to
video. Slides scanned for printing on photo paper are $2.60 each.
These slides are saved as jpg's in very high resolution and take several
minutes each to process. In addition, all slides must be loose and
presented in a box or carousel.
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| Photos to DVD Sample Productions |
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In widescreen format (2:30 minutes) |
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In standard format (2:30 minutes) |
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Turn up your speakers for audio. |
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