Equipment Reservations

Your VHS, VHS-C, Hi8 and MiniDV tapes can be converted to a digital format using equipment in the center. Your tapes may have become fragile over time. Convert them at your own risk.

• Bring your own, name brand, 3.0 USB thumb drive for each transfer station you have reserved. The flash drive should be at least 32 GB if your file is small. A 128 GB is recommended for full tapes and multiple tapes.
• You are required to remain at the equipment station for the entire digitizing session. Tapes transfer in real time so consider bringing a laptop, or something to work on or read while the transfer is taking place.
• Your External Hard Drives will not reliably work with our digitizing stations but can be used to consolidate all your digitized video files when you are done.

By preparing your video tapes you will maximize your time and preserve more family memories during your digitizing session.

8mm and Super8 film can be transferred to digital format using Memory Lane equipment. Your tapes may have become fragile over time. Convert them at your own risk.

• Carefully clean your film.
• Check your film for damage and breaks.
• Our 8MM conversion equipment - only converts video. It can't convert audio.
• You are required to remain at the equipment station the entire session. Film transfer in real time so consider bringing a laptop, or something to work on or read while the transfer is taking place.
• Bring your own, name brand, 3.0 USB thumb drive for each transfer station you have reserved. The flash drive should be at least 32 GB if your file is small. A 128 GB is recommended for full tapes and multiple tapes.
  

We currently digitize VHS, VHS C, S-VHS, and S-VHS C formatted tapes.

• Gently clean your photos, front and back, removing all dust and debris. Learn how to safely clean photos here.
• Remove all the sticky residue from old photo albums. Learn how to safely remove sticky residue here
• Sort and organize your photos.
• Make sure the photos face the same direction.
• Group the photos by size.
• Bring a USB Flash drive at least 32 GB.

By preparing your photos you will maximize your time and preserve more family memories during your digitizing session.

• Gently remove dust and debris from your documents.
• Remove paper clips, staples, tape and other fasteners.
• Straighten your documents.
• Organize and group them by size. Documents of the same size can be scanned, front and back, in a rapid feed scanner.
• Fragile documents are best scanned on a flatbed scanner.

By organizing and preparing your documents you will maximize your time and preserve more family memories during your digitizing session.

Memory Lane can accommodate slide scanning on a flatbed scanner and other equipment.

• Clean the slides of all dust and debris.
• Rotate all slides so the image is in the landscape orientation.
• Damaged or fragile slides can be captured using a flatbed scanner.
• Thick plastic bordered slides can be best captured using a flatbed scanner.
• Bring a flash drive at least 32 GB.

Memory Lane equipment includes flatbed scanners for digitizing strip film negatives.

• Gently dust and wipe clean your negatives. Learn more about cleaning negatives here.
• Sort negatives with the shinny side visible.
• Bring a flash drive at least 32 GB.

By preparing your negatives you will maximize your time and preserve more family memories during your digitizing session.

• Clean, dust and organize your materials.
• Bring a flash drive at least 32 GB.
• Please do not digitize materials under copyright.

By preparing your materials you will maximize your time and preserve more family memories during your digitizing session.