What is a DVD PhotoShow?

A DVD PhotoShow is produced for special occasions such as anniversaries, birthdays, graduations, retirements, funeral service, memorial service, mothers day, fathers day, school concerts, musicals, weddings, vacations, and the list goes on. The photos are scanned at 300 dpi and saved as (.jpeg) digital files for use with the DVD Slide Show. Once you insert the DVD into your home DVD player the Slide Show starts with a Hollywood style menu with background music with your title of your show being displayed on the TV screen. At this point you have the option of pressing the play button on your DVD unit or DVD remote to start the show. Once the show starts each picture one after another is displayed, normally held on the TV screen for five to eight seconds each. There will be a pan & scan transition with a cross fade dissolve between each photo that smoothly fades out the photo as the next photo fades in and so on. Background music will be playing for the full duration of the Slide show.

Step 1 » We digitally scan your photos into our video editing systems with the latest Microtek scan technologies. If you are sending us your digital pictures on a memory card, flash drive or CD, we import your pictures into our editing system and it is from these pictures that we produce to analog and digital productions. We do not alter your original pictures in any way.

Step 2 » We'll then digitally restore if needed, the scanned or imported photos to their former glory with our PictuRescue™ System, utilizing Digital ICE and ColoRescue™ state of the art digital editing techniques.

Step 3 » Now that we've restored your pictures, it's time to save them.

JPEG file -  If you’re sure that you’ll only view your images on TV we will save each photo as a JPEG file, these are the files that we use for the DVD Photoshow, which compresses the picture file size for normal viewing on a television. This format loses some image quality during compression, but the loss isn’t noticeable on a standard TV.
 
TIFF file - If you’re planning on printing, editing or archiving your photos or if you’re uncertain how you’ll use them in the future, it is best for you to have them digitally scanned and saved as digital  TIFF files. These digital picture files are then saved to a CD or DVD picture disc only, accessible through your personal computer CD or DVD Rom drive. This IS NOT a DVD PhotoShow. This format preserves detail and color information, which will give you maximum flexibility. You can always save a copy of a TIFF file as a JPEG, but you can’t create a high-quality TIFF image from a JPEG.
 

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1948 B&W photo before & after DIGITAL ICE ™
Click on each photo to see how it works

Quick tips in preparation for your scanned photos

Picture selection

Choose your best photos for us to scan. We can enhance faded color and sharpen some fuzziness with image-editing software, but it’s best to start with clear, vibrant images whenever possible. The better your photo is, the better your scan will be. Our photo scanner has different settings for attributes such as output type, resolution, sharpening, exposure, and color saturation. Although the default values usually provide optimal results, we can fine-tune these settings in our software to bring out the best of your photos.

1955 Color photo before & after ColoRescue™

Click on the photos for a larger view

The better the photo, the better the scan.

DVD Photoshow Sample
(1.86MB)
FULLSCREEN 4:3
PHOTO TRANSFER
H.264 - SIZE 352X234
1MIN .MOV

DIGITAL EXPRESS
28 North Sixth Street
Shamokin  PA  17872
Phone: 570-204-2106
Email: info@digitalexpresspro.com

No need to carry around those bulky photo albums when a Slide Show is as close as the nearest Post Office. Just send us your photos and with our DVD Slide Show,  you'll get everything you need to share your photographs with family and friends all on a single high-quality DVD with royalty free music. We can use both your photographs and/or digital pictures from your camera memory card and more. See below for further details.

DVD Slide Show with photographs

Resolution & Format
Pictures are optimized for television viewing. Your digital pictures are not altered in any way, we send them back to you unchanged in the original media format that you sent them to us on. We copy your digital pictures to our video system and use those pictures for the production of the Photoshow DVD.

See below for optional add-ins.

High-Quality Photo Picture Disc
*Saves photos as digital picture (.tiff) files for viewing, editing, printing and archiving on your personal computer; this is not a DVD PhotoShow. Pictures can be accessed with computer CD-ROM or DVD-ROM depending on amount of photos.

High-Quality Photo Picture Disc of your photos saved as digital picture (tiff) files. Includes a digital scan of each photograph at 600dpi, PictuRescue™ scan restoration, Verbatim 700MB CD or 4.7GB DVD-R printed disc and an Amaray DVD printed case. If total number of files being saved to disc exceed the capacity of the DVD-R disc we will substitute a Verbatim Single-Sided DL (Dual Layer) 8.5GB DVD +/- R disc at no additional charge.

 Resolution & Format
Scanned at 600 dpi and saved to disc as (TIFF) picture files.  Used for editing, printing & archival safekeeping.

DVD Slide Show
and a High-Quality Photo Picture Disc
*Inserts photos into DVD Slide Show movie for television viewing and all high quality (.tiff) image files are saved on a separate CD or DVD data disc for computer viewing/editing, printing, and safekeeping. Total of two disc's.

DVD Slide Show and a High-Quality Photo Picture Disc Includes a digital scan of each photograph at 600dpi, PictuRescue™ scan restoration, All of your scanned photographs are then saved as digital picture files (tiff format) to a Verbatim CD or DVD +/-R color printed disc with a color printed DVD case label. If total number of photos being saved to disc exceed the capacity of the DVD +/-R disc, we will substitute a Verbatim Single-Sided DL (Dual Layer) 8.5GB DVD +/- R disc at no additional charge. Photo digital files are then re-sampled at 300dpi, re-sized and converted to jpeg files for use with the DVD PhotoShow, dissolves are applied between each photo, royalty free background music track, beginning title, and saved to a Verbatim DVD-R color printed disc & a color printed insert for the dark grey Amaray DVD case.

See below for optional add-ins.

Custom designed just for you!

DVD Disc and Case are printed in color using high-resolution text, graphics and photos.

35mm Slides or Negatives -  Add-in 35mm slides & negatives to your order for an additional $0.75 each. This is a great time to have those old 35mm slides or film negatives scanned in, a plus for added content to your movie production. Normal hold time during show for still pictures is 8 seconds for each.

Custom Music -  The addition of music to the background of a Photo Show brings real meaning to your DVD production. Each production includes a royalty-free background music track. If you choose to use your own custom music we can use your CD’s, audio cassettes, or vinyl records. A flat rate of $19.95 will cover up to 60 minutes of music to your production, $0.33 per minute thereafter.

MiniDV Tape* - Add this tape to your order, $24.95 for up to 60 minutes. Only available in Photoshow.

VHS, or SVHS Videotape* - Add this tape to your order, $24.95 for up to a 60 minutes or $49.95 for up to 120 minutes. This will allow you to share your video with family and friends who do not own a DVD player and makes a great gift. Only available in PhotoShow.

Note* Any PhotoShow transferred to videotape is recorded on JVC MiniDV, MAXELL SVHS or FUJIFILM VHS Professional Grade tape stock, may be substituted with compatible tape stock if supplies becomes unavailable. All recordings to tape are performed in standard play (SP) NTSC format.

PhotoShow File Conversion - We can convert your PhotoShow to a digital movie file for viewing over the internet (QuickTime®, RealMedia™, Windows Media), A flat rate of $24.95 will cover up to 30 minutes of conversion, $0.45 per minute thereafter. See our format conversion page for further details. Price* includes conversion, Verbatim CD-R or DVD-R printed disc and CD/DVD case. Only available in PhotoShow.

Additional copies can be ordered on CD-R, DVD-R, VHS, SVHS, or MiniDV videotape. Please see our Duplication page for pricing.

Scanner Specifications

Our Photo scan offers the PictuRescue™ photo restoration system, featuring DIGITAL ICE Photo Print Technology, plus color restoration through ColoRescue™ to revive faded colors to their original brilliance.

DIGITAL ICE Photo Scan Technology
Restores damaged photos - Identifies and eliminates unwanted surface defects - Corrects deep scratches, cracks, creases, rips and tears in photo print surfaces.

Bit Depth:
48 bit color - 16 bit grayscale - 1 bit black & white
Optical Resolution:
2400 x 4800 dpi
Interpolated Resolution (maximum): 65,535 dpi
Maximum Scan Area:
8.5" x 11.7"
Image Sensor:
Sigma Six™ Dual 31,800-sensor stacked CCD's
Supported File Formats: PDF, JPEG, TIFF, PCX, BMP, PSD, and EPS.