HomeMovie.Com is the leading provider of Professional Video to Interactive DVD Authoring and provides its professionals and consumers an efficient and sophisticated editing and authoring capabilities via the Internet.  Using the World Wide Web and a completely automated production model, they make it simple, affordable and fun for people to enhance and customize their own home videos and author them to DVD discs. HomeMovie.Com is the first and still only “Online” automated DVD factory in the world and currently operates 2 locations in the United States.

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HomeMovie.Com
31 W Chewuch Road
Winthrop, WA 98862

Phone: 509.996.4281
Toll-Free: 877.576.8777
Facsimile: 509.997.4287

Via Email:

General Information: info@homemovie.com
Sales: sales@homemovie.com
Technical Support: techsupport@homemovie.com
Customer Service: customerservice@homemovie.com
Marketing & Business Development: marketing@homemovie.com
Investment Opportunities: investment@homemovie.com

Our Process
At HomeMovie.Com we have gone out and bought all the of the professional Hollywood equipment so you don't have to.  Many of the same tools that we use for your video are used by the Hollywood studios for transfer of their theatrical blockbusters.  Before we can record your movie to DVD we first need to encode the audio and video into DVD compliant files.  Below is a description of the equipment required for digital tapes Mini-DV, (DV, DVCAM, DVCPRO)  and analog tapes (8mm, Hi8, VHS, SVHS, BetaSP, BetaMax)

Analog Video Tapes
Your analog VHS tapes are first placed into one of our professional JVC SVHS decks.  These JVC decks offer chroma Noise Reduction, chroma aperture correction and 3-line cross talk cancellation which all combine to offer outstanding image quality.  We use Sony UVW-1600 with component outputs for your BetacamSP tapes.

The audio from the tape is first converted from analog to digital through professional Tascam A/D converters.  The digital audio is then sent back to the encoder where it is compressed into a DVD compliant digital audio AC3 file.

At the same time your tape is playing and your audio is converted we also convert the analog video to a digital signal.  To do this we send the the video signal through a Snell and Wilcox analog to SDI decoder.  The Snell and Wilcox decoder provides high quality adaptive decoding, with frame synchronization and adaptive recursive noise reduction, for PAL and NTSC signals.  The noise reduction built into the card allows us to control the the amount of video noise in your analog video.  We can raise the amount of noise reduction to remove the video noise you may see in your video.

The converted video signal is then sent via SDI to the MPX3000 encoder.  The MPX3000 is Spruce's real-time encoder for MPEG-2 and MPEG-1 video encoding, and AC-3 Dolby Digital 2 channel audio encoding.  Since the encoder is real-time there is no need to first encode the audio and video into an AVI or QuickTime file and then transcode that file into a DVD compliant MPEG2 and AC3 file.  Many cheaper encoders first encode the video into one of the above formats and then  convert the file to a DVD compliant file. Many others don't compress the audio into an AC3 file leaving it as a PCM audio file which is much larger than digital AC3 file.  This requires you to lower the bitrate and quality of the video file to fit both the MPEG2 video and the PCM audio onto the DVD.  The real-time encoder not saves time, but it allows us to create higher quality DVDs.  As the audio and video are sent to the computer the MPX3000 encoder compresses the audio and video directly into into DVD compliant files. 

We have designed our own encoding program based on the Spruce Technologies SASI engine to control all aspects of the encoding process.  The computer tells the deck when they should begin to play and when to stop the video tape.  The computers also automatically adjust the bit rate for your video based on the length of your movie.  This allows us to provide you with the highest quality available.

Digital Video Tapes
Your digital tapes are output from our Sony DSR2000 professional decks through the SDI connections directly into our MPX3000 encoders.  The DSR2000 DVCAM editing recorder is designed with exceptional editing capabilities, multi-format playback compatibilities and professional high-quality images.  Since these decks allow us to output SDI we don't need to do any analog to digital conversions keeping your video in its native format.

Authoring
After encoding your movies for DVD and Streaming formats, our system creates the webmovies necessary for our Director's DVD Authoring system. Using a timeline-based drag-and-drop authoring model, you can edit your video content, crop out unwanted footage, re-arrange your video clips, grab content from multiple tapes, select I-Frame accurate chapter start points and chapter thumbnails, grab SnapShots from your video, and custom-title your chapter titles. All in an easy-to-use authoring system that lets you preview your DVD menus and video within minutes of submitting your final edits.

Delivery on DVD and over the Internet
HomeMovie.Com has been delivering quality professional DVDs since 2000. We exclusively utilize Mitsui-brand DVDs to ensure your memories will be preserved on the highest-quality DVD medium currently available. Our compatibility guarantee stands behind each of our productions - It's simple... If you're DVD doesn't work in your DVD player, we will either replace the DVD or refund your project cost.

And with our newest delivery format, the StreamingDVD is the latest innovation to come from HomeMovie.Com. Now you can share your special memories with friends and family around the world or simply down the street. Our newest technology looks and plays just like your DVD - complete with chapter menus, thumbnails and custom chapter markers. Simply click on a chapter, watch the scenes, and then choose another chapter to play from the menu.