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Legacy Multimedia Glossary
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Custom DVD Packages
Custom-tailored DVD presentations designed around your existing photos, 35mm slides and video footage with several optional enhancements available such as photo retouching, photo captions, animated sequences, the addition of home video clips and voice-over narration.
Biography DVDs
Fully customized multimedia productions using original scripts along with a complete array of professional-quality, photo, video, graphic, text and sound elements to tell unique life stories, to preserve history and to commemorate special events for virtually any purpose. Our Biography DVDs are the perfect way to capture a full range of personal, business and other occasions big and small.
Corporate Services
Legacy Multimedia offers a comprehensive set of services specifically designed for corporations and organizations of every type. From company histories, executive profiles and special event celebrations on DVD to world-class photo retouching, digital archiving and other technical services, we do it all.
Wedding Services
We provide a complete menu of services to capture and preserve that very special occasion in a couple's life when they openly express their love and devotion to each other in the presence of family and friends. Legacy Multimedia can create everything from digital wedding invitations, gifts, mementos and souvenirs for the guests to honeymoon memory slideshows, heirloom photo montages and a chronicle of your history together on DVD.
Photo Retouching/Restoration
The art of image manipulation to masterfully enhance or accurately restore original photographs using a blend of the latest high-tech digital tools and a classic sense of style.
Digital Photo Montages
Legacy Multimedia offers beautifully crafted composite pictures made up of various individual images including photos, slides, scans of printed material and other elements to create visually interesting, single compositions for capturing the essence of events, relationships or time periods.
Digital Archiving
The process of systematically organizing, salvaging, restoring and preserving all your old photos, negatives and slides in a new digital format that makes all the images a snap to locate and use. Your final archive is stored on convenient, easy-to-duplicate CDs or DVDs, which can then be kept in a safe, secure place to share for years to come.
Film to DVD Conversion
The transferal of original images and sound tracks from old film or videotapes to the newer DVD format.
CD/DVD Duplication
The process of duplicating all content on original CDs or DVDs to make one or more exact copies, also called “dupes”.
Definition of General Terms
Additional DVDs
Additional copies of your DVD presentation beyond the one included in your package will be billed accordingly. You have your choice of a clear jewel case or a black plastic "Hollywood-Style" case with a label customized using your photographs.
Chapter Card
An image screen with text, which describes the next series of photos and/or video clips. We can also incorporate your photos into the background.
Custom Retouches
Adjustments and corrections made to the digital versions of your photographs, such as removal of distracting objects, scratch and dust removal, color balance and brightness adjustments, or video effects added to the photographs, such as zooming in on a person in a group or cropping a photograph.
DVD Presentation
Your final video delivered on a Digital Video Disk (DVD) with a basic navigation menu. Compatible with most consumer DVD players. Your video will be delivered in a keepsake case with labels unique to your own video.
Home Video Clips
Inclusion of your own home videos or film footage in the final DVD presentation. We accept a variety of formats, including 8mm, Super8, 16mm, VHS, Video8, Hi8, Digital8 and MiniDV. Please inquire for other formats.
Intro Card
A title image, which states the title of your video/event and the production date. We can also incorporate your photos into the background.
Multimedia
On this website, multimedia means the inclusion of text, graphics, illustration, photography, live and animated video as well as sound elements integrated into a single piece to inform or entertain the audience.
Photo Captions
A photo caption is a title or text that will appear on or next to the photo. Each caption will count as the equivalent of one photo in your custom DVD package.
VHS Presentation (Video)
While a DVD will showcase the best quality video, you may request that your final video be presented on a VHS tape instead of a DVD at no extra cost.
VHS Proof
A watermarked, pre-release version of your video submitted to you on VHS videotape, which you can review for approval or making changes before the creation of your final DVD presentation.