Yes. That’s exactly what iMemories is all about. We “digitize” your pre-digital home videos and photos, then, allow you to combine your modern digital photos and digital video. Not only can you combine them at iMemories, but, iMemories will store them in one location for fast, convenient access to watch, share and create premium, personalized DVD merchandise.

Most home movie films and videos are not labeled nor are they organized. And, most iMemories customers do not have access to film projectors or the variety of video players and camcorders necessary to watch home videos ahead of time to label and organize them. Plus, who has the time?

Our service does not require you to pre-label or pre-organize anything ahead of time. Once we digitally master your home movie films/videos, you can view them online and then, label them quickly and easily with a few clicks of the mouse.

If you are not comfortable using our iMemories Online experience, we will provide you with a physical storyboard of each home movie asset (reel or tape) – either via e-mail or as a printed document sent through the mail. An iMemories Storyboard is a one-page color document full of thumbnail images of your home movie content. It displays a high-level “picture” summary of what is on each videotape. With iMemories Storyboards, you can easily, quickly and accurately label your final iMemories Archives without the need to watch your home videos on legacy film projectors or outdated video players.

If you have experience working with digital video, and, you have the equipment and software, the answer is yes. But, the process is not straightforward and simple for non-tech savvy people. Said simply, a DVD is designed to be watched, and not edited. To edit the video footage stored onto a DVD, the DVD footage must be digitally transcoded back to an editable digital video format (often referred to as an AVI or DV file). From there, the AVI file (Microsoft Windows) or DV file (Apple Macintosh) can then be imported into a video editing software program, and edited from there. Once fully edited, the AVI or DV file must then be re-transcoded back to MPEG-2 format and published to a DVD.

Because of the complexity and time-consuming nature of this process, iMemories makes it easy for our customers. With an iMemories Online membership, iMemories customers can edit their home videos online before they are custom published to DVD. That is the fastest, easiest, and most convenient way to customize your home movie collection.

In addition, if at any point a customer wants to edit their home videos at home, they can order their entire collection of home movie footage to be sent to them in either AVI or DV format (ready for editing) via external hard drive (additional fees apply). The customer can simply plug in the external hard drive to their home computer and import the footage into their preferred video editing software program.

iMemories Online is a one-of-a-kind online video watching, sharing, editing and DVD publishing experience. It is designed to be a one stop destination site to store and access all of your home videos and photos conveniently – whether those memories are currently in a digital format or not.

iMemories Online has two membership levels – standard (free) and premium (annual subscription).

iMemories is the only company that actually professionally scene edits your home movie footage, and provides that premium value without upgrade fees. Intelligent scene editing means that our professional editors perfectly segment your home videos based on the actual full-length footage provide. The footage is completely cleaned up – eliminating film leader, blank tape spots, etc. In addition, natural scenes are segmented the way the original camera operator intended. There are no specific time limits for a scene, as scene editing at iMemories is natural and content specific. For example, footage of children playing the backyard is a scene – whether it is 5 minutes or 15 minutes. And, the next scene might be a piano recital, then a birthday party, etc. These intelligent scenes are then loaded into your iMemories Online account where the customer can individually label and share them online with family and friends. When the time comes to archive them to DVD, the scenes become perfectly labeled and organized scenes of the final iMemories Archive on DVD.

Other service providers will claim to “create DVD chapters” or “scenes” of your home videos. Be aware that they are only unintelligently “slicing” the video into smaller segments – with no regard to the natural scene content. Example: Each and every DVD will have 54 chapters, whether it has 15 minutes of footage or if it has 120 minutes of footage). This is not intelligent scene editing, merely some skip points to aid in skip forward or skip backward. These other service providers will also not allow the scenes to custom labeled or organized.