Product Quality
One of my greatest prides, and greatest appeals, is the quality I provide. Not just my high quality of service, or the quality of my work, which has been explained already on my site, but the physical qualities, the quality of my materials. I assure you that I use top quality materials and equipment in all my projects. Let me tell you why, and how that quality effects your product. (Have I said quality enough yet?)
Tape Deck Equipment
This is where it all begins. The device that plays your tapes. With any kind of Audio or Video work, your maximum quality is determined by your source. If you have a mediocre source, you'll only be able to have a mediocre outcome--editing can only go so far if what you have to work worth is inferior to begin with. While I may not be able to control what you recorded your movies with, I can do the next best thing. Preserve the best quality from those tapes.
I use pro-line equipment to transfer your tapes to Digital Videos (to be put on DVD). These decks are designed for editing. The way those older tapes are recorded, they usually never play as well as they do on the device that originally recorded them. My editing decks, however, are specifically designed to compensate for the differences in recorders, and provide unsurpassed playback quality, even removing some of those odd lines, warps, and color problems cause by bad tape tracking. They do a myriad of other nifty things as well, that can give a sharp uniform picture, and a consistant sound. I tweak the settings until I get the best picture quality I can from your videos. This quality is much greater than those cheap VCR's you buy at the store, and a lot greater than those camcorders, which are designed to Capture great video, but not always have a great playback.
DVD Burning Hardware
Most likely, if you have a DVD burner (a device that records onto a DVD) at home, its one of the cheapest you could find. Wether its in your computer, or under your TV, its probably a budget unit. These cheaper units, will often give you a DVD disc with a quality thats on-par with its value. Cheaper recording units are very prone to write errors, resulting in unplayable discs ("Coasters" as they are called in the business), short life span, loss of picture quality, or lack of DVD Player compatibility. I, however, use a recording module with a history of some of the smallest error percentages, providing good clean burns of your discs, with none of those nasty problems listed above.
DVD Discs
Did you know that all blank DVD's are not made equal? Different discs have huge differences in qualities. Quality blank DVD Discs is of key importance. Not only can a quality disc reduce the amount of write errors, but they'll also be more compatible with DVD players, and the difference in life-span in tremendous. Some of those cheap spindels of discs you find at stores, can start to break and peel after just a few years. You want--neigh, need--discs that will "last a lifetime". I settle for nothing less than the 2 highest quality discs in the business.
Taiyo Yuden
Taiyo Yuden discs are universally known by AV fanatics as the absolute best quality of discs. I use their premium-line 8x DVD-R discs, because of their high reviews, and because of my own personal observations about this series. They're durable, they last, and have very very few errors. Taiyo Yuden originally designed the Compact Disc, and have been the leader in quality for over a decade.
Verbatim
A Very recognized and premiere company, Verbatim makes consumer-prefered discs. They have a unique new series of discs, called Data-Life Plus. These discs are specifically designed to be the longest lasting DVD discs available. They are Very durable and resistant, and I use them to make the backup discs I provide for every project.
DVD Cases
A minor thing, but the case is the first thing you notice when you take out your DVD from your shelf, and first impressions do matter. I use quality new-materials DVD cases, the same type the DVDs you buy from the store come in. Mine though, don't have those pesky little clasps, and the push-button that holds your disc in actually works without breaking your finger, or the button! Your project will have a quality look not only in video quality, but appearance as well.