The Summer is Endless but not this Sale!

Happy Summer to you! This Spring brought us lots of rain and other inconveniences! We, here at Home Video Studio in Portland, decided to offer you some well deserved sunshine! Have you been sitting on some photos or videos that needs to be transferred? Do you have a video that needs editing? Do you have an event coming up that needs a videographer? We are now promoting our Christmas in July special on every service we offer! 20% off of every type of video product and service we do. Perhaps you have film or videos to be transferred to DVD, maybe you need a photo keepsake done, a sports scholarship video - WHATEVER IT IS, now through the month of July we'll take 20% off of the regular price!! We'd like to help you with your video needs, so give us a call and receive an early Christmas present AND a little sunshine!!! Call us at 503-716-8578 today!

Summer Newsletter

Home Video Studio - Portland June 2010- Issue 28


Welcome
Your local Home Video Studio is part of the world's leading international video production services franchise. We have studios located in the United States, Canada and Sweden. Home Video Studio provides video production and post production services for consumers, businesses, schools, churches, and other organizations!

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Contact Information
Home Video Studio
Philip and Suzi Beech
15179 NW Blakely Lane
Portland, OR 97229
877-388-9359
philip.b@homevideostudio.com
http://www.homevideostudio.com

'Tis the Season for Cool DVD Savings!
June is here! With schools out, pools open, and summer in full swing, it's time to start thinking about Christmas - Christmas in July that is. Announcing Home Video Studio's 'Christmas in July' early bird special! Call us today to see what specials we're offering for the summer yuletide. Because they make great gifts, three of our most popular services at the Holiday time are: 8mm/16mm Home Movie Transfer. Time and the elements take a toll on your priceless old movies. They need to be transferred digitally to Gold Archival DVD so that you and your loved ones can enjoy them for generations to come! Home Movie DVDs can include music, menus, chapter markers, and titles. Photo Video Keepsakes. Let us take your favorite photos and slides and produce a one- of- a- kind work of art complete with titles and your favorite music. Video tape to DVD. We'll transfer all of your VHS, 8mm and Mini DV tapes onto a convenient and long-lasting Gold Archival disc - complete with scene selection and menu. Now, if the traditional Holidays are more of your thing, may we suggest you get started planning now! "Why in the world should I start thinking about Christmas now?" you might ask. Well, we've compiled a Top Ten List with the advantages of calling us today to begin planning your exclusive Holiday Gifts!
The best gifts involve thought. Leave the necktie with the tag still on it to someone else. We want you to come to us loaded with photos, tapes and movies and, most of all, brimming with ideas! If you start thinking now there's no telling what your creative mind will dream up to make a most memorable Holiday gift.
Some of your material might be scattered across the country. Where's that one photo you always loved? Maybe across the continent. Where are those old movies? In Brother Billy's basement? Or was it Aunt Ada's attic? Now is the time to start locating the precious memories that you need to make your project the very best!
Last minute = Stress. Especially with unique creative gifts. Call us now and give yourself the time to really do it right. You and your family are worth it!
Price break. Call us today to see what kind of early bird specials we can offer you!
Last minute gift? No problem! The sooner your project is complete the sooner a last minute "oops, I forgot about..." is only a DVD copy away!
You'll have fun! You'll have a ball, all summer and fall, creating your masterpiece and avoiding the mall.
Someone else might think of it. Don't get "scooped." Video gifts are great ideas that need to be acted upon now!
Because setting your mind on the Holidays in the summer months will keep you cool.
Margin to be creative. We see it all the time. One great creative turn leads to another. You need time to revise and realize even better ideas.
Did we mention the price break? Be an early bird and take advantage of our specials!
Call us today!

About Home Video Studio - Portland
Your local Home Video Studio offers a wide range of professional video production services to consumers and businesses alike. We value our customers and want to thank you for being a part of our success! Home Video Studio strives to make your experience with us enjoyable and truly memorable. Our specialties include video production, video editing, home movie and video transfers, CD and DVD duplication, and much more! For all of your video needs, call Home Video Studio today for an appointment!




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Summertime - and the DVDs are Easy

You've probably noticed that your video camera becomes your constant companion in the summertime. Ball games, barbecues and beaches. Fireworks, friends and family vacations. All those moments from summers past have produced mountains of memories. Life's precious memories that are "somewhere" in a truckload of tape. How do you manage it all? Let us sort out the summers past and plan the summer ahead with a delightful presentation called a FamilyTIME £ Video. What's a FamilyTIME Video? We're glad you asked! A FamilyTIME video is a three to five minute fast-moving DVD edited together from your existing video, sorted by subject and bundled together with your favorite song. For example, "Baby's First Year" might be a four minute presentation with an appropriate song playing under it. What an emotional piece - and your family will love it! Our experience reveals that people enjoy videos that, like a good meal, are prepared, seasoned and presented on a silver platter. Let us help you take your very best shots, group them by subject, add titles and a few special effects, put appropriate music underneath it all and create a concise, powerful video masterpiece. Best of all, you get a FamilyTIME DVD to show now - and we can keep your videos on file to be updated. Have beaches always been a part of your summer? Distill your best footage into a five minute DVD, incorporate titles (Everything is Just Beachy?) and complete it with beach music. Does summer include traveling and visiting friends? Narrow down the most poignant moments of each past reunion; add some special effects (Slow Motion might be good) and make a moving tribute using a heartwarming song as the soundtrack. What a great gift to bring with you as you revisit them this summer. Kids in Little League? How impressive is a fast-moving documentary of every hit set to a baseball tune? Start with their very first year and show them growing in stature and skill - all the way to today. And when the summer's over add this current season! Don't forget, we can make one tape transfer or one copy as well. No job is too big or too small. Call us today to learn how you can document the days of summer past and future into a bite-sized FamilyTIME video masterpiece.

Organize your Photos

On your computer there lives a My Pictures folder that can house your photos, cryptically labeled by date or other arcane method. A good start for organizing perhaps but there are a whole range of software programs that exist to make photo labeling, editing and sharing a lot easier, and maybe even fun.
Picasa from Google, and Mac's iPhoto, are two options. Both do the heavy lifting of scanning your computer for all your photos and organizing them into categories. Both offer easy-to-use editing tools. Both help you share, print and create display items (photo books, collages, etc.).
Do some research, read up on software options, download the one you like and start uploading your photos.
Your new mantra…”no more mindless uploading of photos”. From now on, you’ll give a name to each photo you import and create a folder named appropriately where your photos will live.
For photos already sitting on your hard drive, start renaming! Spend time labeling your pictures with the date and a description (YYYYMMDD-subject). This is a good time to do a little editing. Eliminate any really crummy pix or photos with redundant subjects. As you add photos, be consistent in naming them.
Name the folders first with the year, then month, When you name folders numerically, they’ll always stay in date order in your directory tree.
Most programs allow you to group your photos in a variety of collections, so you don’t have to choose faces or places or folders, you can — and should — group them all three ways. All the better for later searches: “Now where is that photo of Claire at the top of El Capitan from our 2007 Yosemite trip?” Search for “Claire” (faces) “Yosemite” (places) and/or “2007” (dated folder).
Now that you’ve got a handle on all the great photos in your possession share them with the world!
Contact Home Video Studio Portland and we can create a Keepsake Video with music titles and even video or old 8mm film to share them with friends and family.
Flag your favorites –those worthy of enlarging, framing or otherwise showcasing. But before you wholesale order all your favorites as prints, decide what you’ll do with them once they arrive in tangible form.
If you’ve got frames and wall space in mind, print accordingly. Photo books are great but caution this could lead to a serious scrap booking addiction I am told.

Now call Home Video Studio for back up and Archival services.

Photo Videos and Photo Montages

A photo video is a simple way to protect and bring to life your family's precious memories. We'll edit your photos to music and create a customized unique keepsake on DVD.Photo Video Keepsakes make wonderful gifts for family members. They are a fantastic and creative way to preserve your family's history for generations to come. Everyone can also now have DVD copies of those priceless family moments.

You may want to incorporate videos and home movie film in your Photo/Video Keepsake. View and decide what portions of your home movies you would like to include in the piece. Home Video Studio can transfer that material into a format and include that in your Photo/Video Keepsake

To save time and money prepare your materials before talking to us about your Photo/Video Keepsake.

First make the tough decision -- which photos to choose and which to lose. We suggest you make a "YES" pile and a "NO" pile, putting all the photos that you may want to use in the "YES" pile and all the rest in the "NO" pile. WARNING: This step is way too much fun, so don't get caught looking at each photo for more then a moment! Try to zero in on the photos that will tell your family's story the best. Think of your Photo/Video Keepsake as a story with a beginning, middle and an end,

Gather all of your YES photos together. We suggest you put them in chronological order. Start with the early photos and work your way forward to the present day. You may have some photos or groups of photos that will work better in their own little chronological sequences; such as, career, job or business photos, house photos, lake home photos, vacations, grand-kids, etc. You can even accent these by using a special music theme or select popular songs of the time. for each group and perhaps even giving each group its own title; for instance, you could place the title "Our Babies" before the grandchildren group. Think of your Photo/Video Keepsake as a story with a beginning, middle and an end.

         Number your photos on the back with either a pencil or stickers (post-it notes work well). DO NOT USE a pen as the ink may rub off onto the other photos. This is also the time to start thinking about music and titles. You'll at least want a greeting at the beginning and some closing statement at the end of your video. For example, if you are making an anniversary video, you could simply put "Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad" at the beginning and "With Love, From All Of Us" at the end. Or, if you wish, you can be more personal and creative in your titles. Why not use some poetry or a favorite quotation?