How Digital Pickle supports the community

Digital Pickle is an active contributor to various charities supporting medical research, education, and community services.

Digital Pickle supports our men and women in the armed services, police, fire, and medical emergency personnel and provides them with discount on our services.

We also support educational and research institutions and provide them with digital media services at a discount

We are green. Our lighting, HVAC, and equipment are ultra efficient in power usage. We minimize the use of paper and packaging materials. All of our packaging material is recyclable.

Mankind's desire to preserve and share memories from one generation for the benefit of future generations has been evident for millennia. Records of family genealogies, histories of the rise and fall of nations, societies, and individuals with stories of their successes and failures have been kept since the beginning of recorded history in every enduring society.

This desire to preserve and share memories continues unabated and may be increasing in our day. For example, the two key reasons given for taking pictures with digital still cameras, driving this market's huge growth, are the desire to "Preserve memories" (91% of respondents in a 2007 survey, up from 68% in 2000) and the desire to "Share with others" (74% in 2007, up from 67% in 2000). [i]

At the same time, however, our modern tools of preservation, including and especially digital preservation, are more fragile than the rolls of papyrus buried with the pharaohs. [ii]
Even if optical disks could preserve data for 100 years, machines capable of reading them would be largely unavailable in less than half that time. The baked-clay tablets of the Sumerians and Babylonians have preserved history for 60 centuries while today's technologies cannot guarantee preservation and readability for one.

This article was authored in 2010 by Robert R. Dunford, CEO/CMO of Lasting Links, Inc. and provided to Digital Pickle for public dissemination

The conversion and preservation services you are seeking from Digital Pickle today are not the end of the journey but a critically required cycle in the on-going cycle of preservation. Today you may be transferring paper photos or analog tapes to digital files and media. Tomorrow (hopefully not in many years...), you will go through another transformation cycle required by the then available presentation technology. We will be here to help you during that next cycle as well.

[i] 2001 & 2008 PMA Camera/Camcorder Digital Imaging Surveys
[ii] Paul Conway, Preservation in the Digital World, Preservation Department, Yale University Library, March 1996

- Digital Pickle
- (415) 861-4565
- 1256 Folsom St.
- San Francisco, CA 94103

Video Transfer
Film Transfer
Audio Transfer
Photo Scanning
Restoration
DVD Slideshows
Photo Books
Slideshows
GSA Certified

We use dedicated commercial equipment complete with noise reduction and image stabilizationwhen 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, MPEG4 (H.264), and any required proprietary format for editing and archiving.

We Digitize Movie Film – convert film to DVD. We convert 8mm, Super 8mm, and 16mm film using high fidelity digital transfer technology. Our 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 noisefiles to high quality audio CDs. Level optimization and track separation are part of our standard service. We also offer 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 plus the optional noise reduction service may become very handy.

We scan and digitize photos, slides, and negatives of any format using high-end commercial 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.

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.

We scan and restore photos, slides and negatives in any format and size. We convert (and enhance) any video and audio content to digital media in any required format, we transfer and restore 8mm and 16mm to digital media in full high definition, we produce DVD slide shows, photo books, and many custom photo gifts. We produce professional digital video productions and we duplicate CDs and DVDs. We perform commercial digital imaging services including video production and post-production services, document scanning - both standard and delicate handling, CD/DVD duplication, and conversion to digital records of large archives. We provide services to government agencies under GSA schedule 67 (Cameras, Photographic Printers and Related Supplies & Services, Digital and Film-Based) SINs 19 100 - contract # GS-02F-0066W.