Preserving memories

Times Reporter

 

The days of VHS flew by us, and while most jumped on the bandwagon buying camcorders and recording life’s precious moments the question now is what to do with those home videos. Many people likely still have their videos sitting in a box collecting dust waiting for the day when they are either tossed, or a solution is figured out.

What began as a hobby for Dennis Seibel has turned into a business, one where he helps people save those memories. Seibel began going through old vacation videos and started reformatting them to put onto DVDs so they can be enjoyed well into the future and he realized he had to do something before the tapes deteriorated and he’d lose everything for good.

“So what I do is I can take those old photographs that you have in your shoeboxes and whatnot and scan them, edit them, fix them up, get rid of the red eye and those sorts of things and put them onto DVDs or CDs, whatever you choose. I can scan photographs, slides or film strips,” said Seibel.

“I also do video editing so I can take your VHS tapes…camcorders, analog or digital camcorders, and can edit parts out that you don’t want and get rid of the snow and blue screens and any dead stuff you can take out. You can do it up like a Hollywood DVD kind of thing, you can add chapters and titles and menus so you can skip to where you want rather than having to watch the whole thing.”

Seibel can add a custom title, visual effects, transitions and music to bring your photo slideshow to the next level. He can create a slideshow for a wedding reception, or of a birthday party or even a collage of your child’s sports year. Anything you can think of, any pictures you want you can throw on there, said Seibel. The slideshows can also be formatted for smart phones or portable tablets.

For more information contact Dennis Seibel Studios at 403-901-5472.