Digital Pickle: who we are, our mission and our culture

Digital Pickle is a network of company owned and independently owned state-of-the-art digital imaging studios that embrace customer service, image & video quality, and careful handling of your precious materials - which never leave our studios.

All independetly owned studios who are members in our netwrok are certified by Digital Pickle and must meet stringent standards.
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Our accomplished technicians have a passion for digital media and a tireless commitment to your satisfaction. They are all college educated in the fields of visual arts and digital media.

Our primary objective is to always provide the best possible service tailored to your specific needs, which explains why more than half of our business comes from repeat customers and referrals.

We scan and restore photos, slides and negatives in any format and size. We convert (and enhance) any video and audio to digital media in any required format, we transfer and restore 8mm and 16mm to digital media in high definition, we produce DVD slide shows, photo books, and many photo gifts.

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 our GSA schedule contract GS-02F-0066W.

Mission

To help consumers preserve their cherished memories in sharable digital form and to enable corporations and institutions to leverage their accumulated knowledge and rich legacy content by producing high quality digital content in a cost effective manner - meeting or exceeding each customer expectations.

Our Culture

Integrity and trust are cornerstones of our business dealings and of our dealing with each other
We understand that customers entrust us with their cherished content and we will always prove to be trustworthy
We take personal care of our customers projects and perform all work at our local facilities
We are at the customer's service and we always do the best we can, at the highest cost effective quality, exceeding customer expectations
We respect our customers, our suppliers, and each other
We strive to innovate every aspect of our business in order to provide better services to our customers in the most efficient manner
We communicate effectively with customers, suppliers, and within the team, responding to requests by the next business day at the most
We provide an essential historical preservation service to the community and we are proud of it

- 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.