Legacy Digital Productions

The guys at Legacy Digital are awesome! I’ve had them work on about three different projects for me over the last 7 years, and the work had been top notch on all three services.
The first: we found some very old 8 mm reels of my dad and my grandfather. When I found them, I recognized what I thought they were, but I didn’t even have a machine to play them on. I’d heard that Legacy did a great job with direct transfer (not recapturing on a screen) and color correction. Boy was I thrilled with the result!!! These movies were better (more brilliant in color) that what I remembered and it was amazing to see it all on a nice large HD TV instead of on an old grey 8 mm screen, with a projector whirring loudly in the background. He offered me options to have it directly on a hard drive if I wanted to edit, onto a DVD, or bluray disc. We opted for the DVD since it worked on more of our players at the time. He uses a higher quality DVD than other outfits so we should be able to keep and enjoy these old films for a long time.
The second: several years later, we came upon an entire box of slides in our attic some time ago, and I kind of held on to them for a while, trying to decide whether to transfer them to digital. I was SOOO glad I did! There were some absolute treasures in there. Pictures that brought back all kinds of memories and even some pictures I don’t remember, but was able to recognize folks I hadn’t seen in a long time, again because of the great quality of transfer.
The third: not long after (about 4 months ago) we found the rest of the family’s old Super 8 movies. I found the projector as well, but by this time I was already convinced that if I tried to play these old movies on an old projector without cleaning them and without knowing if the projector still worked… I might ruin the film. Scott had showed me before how they clean and lubricate the reels BEFORE doing the transfer, so I had them take this batch as well. Got them back, and watched them several times with popcorn. What a great family night activity!
They did everything I could have asked for and more. I give them my unqualified recommendation!

I’m writing on my experience with this business back in 2007. Since it’s been a while, the details are fuzzy but the impression they left on me will last forever.
My advice is to NOT go here. I hired them to do a Super 8 MM to digital conversion of all my mom’s home movies. The guy in charge at the time came over to our house, seemed very nice, and made us feel like we were in good hands. We gave him our deposit and he left with our reels.
The 8 – 10 weeks to completion they had promised had come and went, without so much as a phone call. I repeatedly called them and I was not given a status or a new delivery time. 4 months had passed and it was nearing Christmas, which is when I wanted to have these movies ready for to give as a gift to my extended family.
At one point I called them and they said the disks were ready, I arrived there only to find that the admin who spoke to me was mistaken and I left empty handed.
I did get the movies finally… the production values were subpar. Movies that had audio originally were now mute. You could tell they projected this on a screen and recorded it, as you could see silhouettes of people’s heads passing in front of the camera. In one video I see a woman’s hands holding a book reading it the whole time in front of my video!
I did speak to the manager and showed these to him, and they did get it redone. However while most of the errors were fixed, some movies had worse video than before and I had to use my own software to combine the good video from the first version with the audio of the 2^nd. The picture was overall very fuzzy and dark; not even close to the quality of playing it on a Super 8 MM projector in a dark room. I cut my losses and took what I got, it was the 2^nd week of December and they cut it way close.
I admit, I hadn’t shopped around before picking this company. Afterward I did find a reputable company that does a better quality transfer at a lower price. Like I mentioned, this was a long time ago and they might’ve changed for the better, but I wouldnt want to chance it again.
I am currently looking for another company to re-​transfer my mom’s home movies, as I overall wasn’t happy with the product; this is a testament to the low quality product and bad experience I had with this company.

Solid work and quick return. Big thanks to Legacy for turning a VHS to DVD without issues.

Legacy Digital did a fabulous job of getting our old family films and slides on dvd for my parents’ anniversary. The quality was amazing and my parents were so surprised. Scott was so helpful picking up and delivering our order saving us time and gas money and keeping our fAmily treasures safe from the mail. I definitely would recommend them to anyone and in fact am calling them again to do all of our vhs tapes and camcorder tapes next.

Exec summary: Very satisfied, but you have to be patient.
Details: I had 1700 feet of old (1950 — 70’s) 8 mm and Super8 film digitized. Converted to both SD and HD formats onto a disk drive that I supplied, so files are quite large (20GB for 8″ reel — 400′). But the higher resolution (than DVD using mpg2 compression) is better for my purpose of video editing. HD is 1920×1080, but of course the image is still the original 4×3 aspect ratio (which makes the picture part 1440×1080) so as expected there are black bars on either side — but resolution is as good or better than the film (some sites estimate 8 mm film resolution to be around 800 by 600).
It took about 7 weeks (they said 6 to 8 weeks), so be prepared to deal with that turn-​around time. But quality was supurb — with the knowledge that filmstock does degrade/​fade over the years. But the video files that they produced was what was on the film, and in fact is _​better_​than what I’d seen before with a projector, because now the lighting is consistent and doesn’t fade or blur towards the corners.