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

Digital Pickle is a privately owned state-of-the-art digital imaging company that embraces customer service, image & video quality, and careful handling of your precious materials - which never leave our national processing center based in Hayward, CA. Established in early 2004, we scan and restore photos, slides and negatives in virtually any format and size. We convert (and enhance) any video and audio to digital media in many different formats. We transfer and restore 8mm and 16mm to DVD, and produce DVD slide shows, photo books, and many photo gifts.

Our accomplished technicians have a passion for digital media and a tireless commitment to your satisfaction. They are all educated and trained in the fields of visual arts and digital media.

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

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, non-profits and educational institutions.

Free Shipping available on all orders

We offer two methods for our customers to receive free shipping to and/or from our national processing center. All orders over $100 receive free return shipping via UPS Ground to our customer's home or business. And our growing nationwide network of Walk-In Centers allows our customers to save shipping charges by dropping their order off at one of our Walk-In Center locations.

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
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  • Video Transfer
  • Film Transfer
  • Audio Transfer
  • Photo Scanning
  • Restoration
  • DVD Slideshows
  • Photo Books
  • 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.
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.