Sharing & Reminiscing About the Good ‘ol Days

Reach back to the past and reminisce with your parents and share the past with the next generation.
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Determining the length of your film and videos

Movie film length is determined by the diameter (distance across) of the film on the reel. Many of the films that come to the Leave A Legacy studios are 3 inches across and on blue plastic reels. These are 50 feet long when they are full. The attached chart shows the length of film on
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How we do it: Transferring video to DVD

Leave A Legacy can transfer your regular 8mm film, super 8mm film and 16mm film directly to DVD. We have both an 8mm and a 16mm projector that have been modified and are mounted in line with a 1CCD digital camera. The camera captures the image from every frame of your film and sends it
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Adding Music or Narration

Music or narration is often added to DVD slideshows, silent films, and even used to replace audio in a video recording. It completes the production and adds another valuable effect to your creation! We have 3 basic options for music:°Free music – we have royalty-free, instrumental upbeat background music in a variety of styles°Your CDs
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How we do it: Transferring film to DVD

Leave A Legacy can transfer your regular 8mm film, super 8mm film and 16mm film directly to DVD. We have both an 8mm and a 16mm projector that have been modified and are mounted in line with a 1CCD digital camera. The camera captures the image from every frame of your film and sends it
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What are your photos saying

This common cliché has it all wrong. Otherwise we would look at stacks of old photos and tell our children and grandchildren just who is in the photo and what was special about that day. The photos you take today can have the same problem when they are admired a few generations from now if
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Ideas Abound! Giving the Gift of Memories this Year?

Memories always make the best gifts, even for those “hard to buy for” people on your list.  Where else can you make a priceless gift for an affordable price? We always seem to be hopping at Leave A Legacy but during the Holiday season we start double timing!  Need some ideas?  Check out our Holiday
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45rpm record has songs about hard work on the farm

Lana brought in a 45 record that had her uncle, Lloyd, singing on one side and her cousin, Debbie, on the other. Each sang a song that they had written.  One is titled as CornShuck’n  Song and the other is “What are we doin on this doggone farm”.    Lana brought in her project because
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Happy New Year! Let’s create some memories!

Happy New Year to all! We hope that you had a wonderful Holiday Season filled with family, friends, and of course, good food! 2015 is going to be absolutely wonderful! A new year filled with excellent potential to create new memories as well as restore past ones! Leave A Legacy is your one stop shop
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Want to preview your old media before you have them transferred?

We have all sorts of VCRs, video cameras, reel-to-reel, 8-track, and record players that you can use in our Fort Collins store to preview your videos or old audio before you have us transfer it to digital for you.  We also have a light table that you can use to look at negatives, slides and
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