DVD Slideshows - Technical Details

You send us your photos, slides, negatives, and selection of music together with instructions on how to arrange everything.
We digitize your media and create a web version of the slide show so you can review it online. One draft for review is included in the basic price. Editing time will be charged for additional versions (unless due to our error).
After we have your approval we create a high quality DVD disc and ship it back to you along with your originals. We do not install any copyright protection, so you are free to make copies of your DVD.

Each slide show can have up to 1,000 images. By default, we leave a 5-second interval between images.
The slide show content may have the following elements:

Digital images from our scanning of your photos and slides, or your digital images
Video clips that we had created or you provide
Music for original retail CDs, audio we transferred for you from records and cassettes, or music we download for you for a fee

Our Process and Equipment

We use professional image and video editing software enabling us to arrange still images, video clips, and music

We create a draft slideshow based on the sequence you had defined

Create custom features like:

Video clips trimmed, joined, and rearranged
Still images incorporated as a slide show
Navigation menu with custom chapter points
Titles, motion effects, transitions, and annotations
Background music and voice-overs

You review the draft online and approve – one modification is included and additional changes not due to our error will be charged as editing time

We burn the DVD slideshow disc and copies are required.

Output Formats

DVD with the slide show
We can upload the slideshow to an online gallery of choice at the proper format for an additional fee

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Slideshows

We use dedicated commercial equipment complete with noise reduction and image stabilization when we transfer home movies to DVD. Our process produces exceptional video quality. Digital Pickle can perform professional video editing and DVD authoring to your requirements. We are able to handle high volume video archiving projects and transfer video tapes to DVDs as well as uncompressed video to external hard drives or mini-DVs in AVI, Quicktime Pro-Res, or Quicktime MPEG4 (H.264) video formats.

We Digitize Movie Film – convert film to DVD. We convert 8mm, Super 8mm, and 16mm film using high fidelity digital transfer technology. Our all-digital aerial-capture process produces uniform lighting, unmatched clarity, and stunning color depth. Your film is converted to digital video in the form of full quality digital video files and/or a playable DVD disc that is compatible with almost all DVD players.

We digitize and convert records and transfer to CD any audio cassettes, reel-to-reel audio tapes and DAT and output the digital audio files to high quality audio CDs. We also offer additional track separation and audio cleanup services to reduce noise, hiss, and to normalize audio levels for audio cassette to CD transfer. When we convert records the same service is available.

We scan and digitize photos, slides, and negatives of any format using high-end Kodak HR-500 commercial image scanners that produce unmatched image quality. Our expert digital imaging technicians spend time with each individual frame to ensure ideal exposure, focus, color fidelity, cropping, and orientation. We create files suitable for online photo sharing as well as CDs or DVDs with image files and folders.

We can perform digital retouching on any photo or digital image. Image retouching is performed by our expert technicians manually using Adobe Photoshop. Since photo touch up requirements vary greatly, we quote our work on an hourly basis and most projects take much less than an hour. Photo Editing is often requested to remove or add objects or people to an original image resulting in a very different final image. This work is also quoted on an hourly basis for the same reasons as photo touch up.

Digital Pickle specializes in producing spectacular, flicker-free DVD slide shows with interactive features and your selection of music. The final product is a DVD disc that is compatible with almost all DVD players and can be controlled just like a movie (i.e. pause, fast-forward, etc.). DVD photo slide show, or Slideshow DVD, are also known as: DVD photo album, video slide show, DVD photo slideshow, family slide show, photomontage, wedding photo montage, or digital photo montage. Essentially, a slide to video conversion is what it is about. These all refer to the same great movie that we create out of the compilation of your memories as captured in photos, slides, negatives and even clips of video and film. This product is purchased as an add-on to our image scanning services

Sharing all your digital images on the Internet or on your computer is nice. How about leafing through a glossy full color custom designed digital photo album with pictures that will never fade or discolor? How about sending these albums to family and friends at special occasions to preserve and share the memories? Well, this is what a photo book is all about. Digital Pickle offers you the full capability to unleash your creativity in creating custom designed long lasting beautiful photobooks with complete control over the layout, backgrounds, themes, and cover types.