Blog: Bring Your Old Home Movies Into the Digital Age – A Review of Pixorial

Are your most precious moments rotting away? Mine are dangerously close. My father was a television director, so there are very few moments of my life that have gone undocumented. However, those memories were captured on various media: Super 8 (that’s FILM for you young ‘uns), Betamax, VHS, Hi-8, and so on. And NONE of those home movies have been transferred to digital. Until recently, most of them resided at my mother’s house in hot and humid Miami. Heat and humidity are the two worst enemies of media, and those memories captured on film and tape are at risk of being lost if I don’t convert them to safer media soon. So when I got the chance to review Pixorial‘s conversion and archiving services, I’ll admit I greedily jumped at it, knowing that I had tons of stuff that needed converting. But I also knew that I’d be pretty tough on them as well, because I have logged a lot of time in the edit bays myself in my reporter days. In the interests of full disclosure, Pixorial provided me with a $50 credit so I would be able to upload content to play with, and a Pro membership.