Digital Archiving

One interesting area that Revolve has moved into is the business of digital archiving. That's the term that I think best describes it. So what do I mean when I say digital archiving? I'd say it could best be defined as the transfer and organization of a large number of audio and video tapes, photos and documents to digital file formats or DVD.

For us, it started as a large VHS to DVD project for a customer in Northern, VA. Basically, they had about 35 years of television interviews and segments of interest that needed to be transferred and preserved from the rapidly decaying tape format. They had hundreds of tapes in different formats including Beta, VHS and 3/4 inch Umatic. We transferred the tapes to DVD and editable MPG files, edited the segments and delivered them on printed DVDs organized by year.

That evolved into a photo project where we digitized, enhanced and organized over 1,000 photos. Now we are currently working on an indexing project of 35 years of newspaper and magazine articles. These are digitized into high resolution PDF files, placed into folders by publication, and indexed in an Excel spreadsheet. This process is as much about the indexing of the articles as it is the transfer from paper to digital.

We have a similar project working for audio tapes. A church here in town had 30 plus years of services and sermons that were on audio cassette. We sat down and met with them to discuss the best way to transfer their cassettes. It was determined that audio MP3 files would be the ideal solution for them. That way they could use them for various things as well as edit portions and compile certain services and sermons.

This is a service that could be beneficial to a wide array of churches, schools, political organizations, law firms and more. Basically, any organization that has a load of film, video tape, paper and photos that are taking up valuable space.

As a business owner, its very interesting to see your product offerings and services follow a natural evolution into new and interesting things.