Should I panic because my VHS home movies were transferred to DVD? Yes and No.

Some panic is in order if you transferred your VHS home movies to DVD, but you may have received a valuable, low cost first step service anyways.

Anyone who has ever tried to make either a short film or a low budget feature film quickly realizes the biggest challenge is creating and then properly positioning literally thousands of video and audio segments into the proper sequence. But even as this monumental task is going on, Audio Tracks have to be built, layered and mixed together and if there are any special video effects, those two have to be built, layered and mixed together.

Our home movies and our treasured family photos can eventually turn into their own layered movie, especially if we hope to preserve the most revered moments.

DVD's are not necessarily the best editing source to work with, but they can be really useful when it comes to logging what is actually on the original VHS home movies. Viewing and logging the DVD transfers of VHS home movies is an excellent way to not accidentally destroy or damage the original VHS video.

Viewing the DVD transfers of original VHS home movies is also an excellent way to really decide if you have a very precious VHS tape or two that stands out above the rest. If you have a VHS tape or two that stands above the rest, you  should consider having that specific VHS or SVHS videotape retransferred in a high end retransfer studio. In my VHS to Digital Retransfer studio you can even supervise your session. 

The cost of a studio based Retransfer of VHS or SVHS to digital is probably astronomical when compared to the original VHS to DVD transfer, but the additional quality of the retransfer from VHS to a Digital File should hopefully please you even more. 

Since home movie events cannot realistically be recreated, the astronomical retransfer cost is actually a drop in the bucket when compared to not being able to recreate that original moment in time again. But there are warnings to consider regarding the playing back of any videotape product, please read below to learn about what can go wrong.

Contact Alessandro Machi at, vhs at AlessandroMachi.com if you want to book a VHS, SVHS to Digital Transfer session in his amazing VHS, SVHS Transfer to Digital Studio. 

Alessandro's Studio and Writing Credits include; 

2001 Los Angeles Emmy,

over 20 IMDB credits for work done in his studio, 

Ranked top 25 out of 20,000 Lifetime Tongal Ideationists. 

1985 Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Internship Scholarship Winner