This months blog is about a video conversion job I did well over a year ago. To date it is still and always will be my favorite conversion job.

When I convert videos I never watch them. I put them on a story board and glance thru them to make sure there was no caps left on lenses, leaving the camera on while walking down the street, the basic wasted tape syndrome. In this case there was roughly 30 tapes of solid motorcycle practice to racing. For someone who grew up on dirt bikes this was fascinating to me and I ended up actually watching a good 75 to 80% of all the videos. I was watching a kid from the age of 5 mature into a professional motocross racer by the time he is 19. This is a 4 minute short of combined highlights of Eric’s rise to success over a 14 year period. Hope you enjoy it. Thanks Bill

Please remember if you need any info or have any questions on video, photo, or audio conversion to DVD, CD or digital file please contact us by phone or email.

Mayrath Video Solutions, 837 Leslie, Coppell Tx. 75019           469 865 7666                  bmayrath@hsv2dvd.com   Please check out our website : www.hsv2dvd.com

This months Blog is about taking care  of and cleaning slides before converting to Digital file. After you have done your spring cleaning and cleaned out those closets, garages, attics and spare bedrooms and  you come upon your old slides,  it is time to have them transferred to digital file.    

Before sending them out to get done to a second party you will want to go thru them and make sure to weed out the doubles and the over blurred. After all you do not want to be charged needlessly for unviewable photos.  I will revert back to a few things I mentioned on my last blog about the easy way to organize your slides and photos.

“Too many times we have heard “we have thousands of photos and do not have time to go thru them and sort them out”. I tell customers that the easy way to prepare is get 300 to 400 slides/photos at a time and while watching TV or sitting out in the backyard soaking and breathing in the springtime, go thru your slides/photos throwing away doubles and sorting  them into folders by years, events, etc. however you want them to be archived.”

Another thing you will want to look for is dirty or moldy slides. You will want to clean them before sending them off. The best way to clean them is with 95% isopropyl alcohol, cotton swabs, and canned air. Always remember to try not to clean the emulsion side unless absolutely necessary. The emulsion side is the dull side not the glossy side.

If you do not want to send your slides out and have them done and prefer to do them yourself there are a couple of pretty good scanners on the market . Epson and Wolverine both make good and affordable scanners for between $135 to $200. Remember though they do take some time to scan so be sure to make a lot of time in your schedule.

Please remember if you need any info or have any questions on video, photo, or audio conversion to DVD, CD or digital file please contact us by phone or email.

Mayrath Video Solutions, 837 Leslie, Coppell Tx. 75019

469 865 7666      bmayrath@hsv2dvd.com

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Springtime is upon us. That being said, now is the time to clean out those closets, garages, attics and spare bedrooms. When you come upon your old home movie videos , photos, and slides you need to think about having those memories transferred to a playable DVD format, external drive or CD. Don’t forget about those record albums and cassette tapes.  At Mayrath Video Solutions we convert those also.

This blog is about preparing  your photos or slides to be archived or having a video slide show made the easiest way possible.

Too many times we have heard “we have thousands of photos and do not have time to go thru them and sort them out”. I tell customers that the easy way to prepare is get 3 to 400 photos at a time and while watching TV or sitting out in the backyard soaking and breathing in the springtime, go thru your photos throwing away doubles and sorting them into years.

When these 3 to 400 are done we will take them and scan to jpeg, sort them into folders by years, events, etc. however you want them to be archived. We will then upload them in an external Flash drive,  SD card, CD, or External Hard Drive .  Now, since we have already saved the folders by years in the drive, the next time you do 3 or 400 you do the same process as before organizing and throwing away what you do not want. Now we just insert the new 3 or 400 jpegs into the existing folders or add folders if needed back into that same drive that we originally loaded the 1^st batch of photos.

We also can make a 15 to 20 minute video slide show presentation complete with music background out of your scanned photos. These are great for Wedding Rehearsal dinner backdrops, family gatherings, birthdays and corporate events.

Preparing your photos or slides this way takes the pressure off of doing this task in a few days and makes it easy for the customer allowing them to take as much time as they like .  Thanks and look for our next blog in a few weeks, Bill

Please remember if you need any info or have any questions on video, photo, or audio conversion to DVD, CD or digital file please contact us by phone or email.

Mayrath Video Solutions, 837 Leslie, Coppell Tx. 75019            469 865 7666                  bmayrath@hsv2dvd.com   Please check out our website : www.hsv2dvd.com

To all My Followers:
For the next few Blog posts I will be putting 1 to 3 minute videos out of old vacations taken from when I was a child all the way to with my family now. These will be from all over the world. After all “ We Make Your Home Movies Memorable Again” , that is our business. Now with all this being said:
Welcome to our 7th, installment of our traveling blogs.
The year is 1975, the month is May. My college roommate and I are riding our motorcycles from Nacogdoches,Texas cross country thru Florida, the Cumberland Gap to Washington DC and on to Ohio to visit our other roommate. We are all on the 3 week break before summer school starts.
Ray , my roommate, and I had a lot of strange adventures and I will just touch on a few of the strangest.
Starting out : Ray on a Yamaha 650. Bill on a Water Cooled Suzuki 750, (still my favorite out of the 12 bikes that I have owned).
1st day we drove all the way to New Orleans. You could definitely tell the difference in highways when we hit Louisiana.
Florida: The next few days we stopped in Pensacola and Panama City. Ray had all the problems in these 2 locations. We got kicked out of the campground we were staying in because of his loud pipes (we were told “damn bikers”), and then around 9 at night a dog jumped into his head light. When we pulled over the owner of the dog started beating the hell out of him. No worries the dog was fine. Next morning we told Florida adios and onto DC via Georgia and a pouring rain thru the Cumberland Gap. I do remember the semis going up the steep grades and it was raining so hard they would lose grip and start to slide back at us.
Washington DC : looked at sights for a day and then off to Columbus,Ohio to visit our other roommate.
The almost Big Bust: remember the year is 1975, 2 guys traveling on motorcycles were considered, by rednecks, ( see Florida above) and all highway patrol alike, as outlaw bikers even though they are on Japanese bikes and one was a 2 cycle rice rocket to boot. So here we are cruising down the Ohio highway and the trooper pulls us over, jumps out of his car, levels his gun at us and tells us to lay face down on the ground. As it turns out at about the same time he pulled us over they actually caught the 2 guys on bikes that had just robbed the store 50 or so miles back, roughly an hour earlier, riding west, same as us, on the same highway that we were on. I hate to think what kind of crap we would have gone thru if they had not caught those guys. Every time I see the movie,” My Cousin Vinnie” it reminds of that moment.
Falling asleep on the Suzuki: on our way back to Texas going thru Missouri Ray honked his horn at me and literally for the last 3 to 5 miles I could not remember anything. We pulled over to get coffee and I asked him why he honked his horn? His response was my “ my mouth was not moving”. Now you have to realize that whenever I ride a motorcycle I am ALWAYS singing. It is something I have always done to concentrate on the road. So for 1800 miles my mouth was always moving except for this last 5 miles or so. Luckily Ray noticed or it would have been a pretty nasty crash at 80mph. Moral of this story is never wear a yellow snow ski face shield.
Well that’s it for the 7th installment. Hope you enjoyed it, and as always if you have any questions or need any Video Slide Shows with music background, VHS or Sony8 video, photo, or audio to DVD, CD, or Digital File conversions done, please call , email, or check out our website. Until our next blog,
thanks Bill
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