About our Prices

We get asked this all the time: We compute charges based on a formula that includes

the estimated total finished minutes in your project and
the cost of different types of media and shipping materials to protect them, and
the cost of handling and shipping your film, digital masters, and DVD -- in 3 phases -- back to you.

We feel this is the fairest and least expensive way to do it -- not the easiest.

Every project is different.

Some projects have damaged film, which takes longer, and

Some have many little reels - harder to work with than bigger reels; and,

Some projects need to be treated as 2 or 3 separate projects -- for different segments of the family, etc.

That's why we give customized price quotes and need to know

your total number of reels
broken out by reel sizes.

We also discount by volume -- the more reels you have the cheaper it is per finished minute. We feel that once we have covered our initial fixed costs and our one time only setup charges, you should be allowed discounts considering your volume and our variable cost of additional reels. This effectively allows us to pass production savings on to clients.

Finally, we only charge $2 per DVD -- which is our cost -- for each additional set of DVDs.

For example: If your project takes 5 volumes (roughly 1 hour each) to make up 1 "complete set" of your digitized films, then your cost -- per set -- would be only $10.

1 Volume = $2 per extra set
2 Volumes = $4 per extra set
3 Volumes = $6 per extra set
etc.

Once we give a quote, we will not charge more for the reels quoted. Many transfer mills are like the stereotype used car salesman, "Oh, you want an engine in this car, too?" They charge extra for such things as "MiniDV tapes". Forget about giving you "digital backups" as part of their deal.