Press Main  /  In the News  /  Press Releases  /  Press Packet Broadcast News:        Radio:   Print: Automatic Editing for the People August 12, 2005 Video is almost always edited before it is shared with anyone. That's according to our very informal survey, in which readers were asked if they like to go "raw" by sharing, screening or selling unedited video (raw footage on a camera tape). Many of you said there was a ton of video footage in the closet, perhaps never to see the light of day, because it needs some editing. But we all know that sorting through hours of videotape can be a tedious and time-consuming process. >>Read the Full Article   May 18, 2005 Mail in your old video tapes and for $5 this outfit will turn them into digital format. You can also make them available online at www.homemovie.com and all your friends and relatives can spend many happy hours watching your kids eat cereal or seeing you try out the new trampoline. You can store them online for $4 a month, or, for $15 you can edit a home movie online and burn it to a DVD. High-tech home movies can link families, military 4.2.2005 Being deployed to war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan is difficult -- yet largely unavoidable -- for many soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines. Not being able to see friends and family for up to a year adds to their stress, including the dozens from the Central Coast now serving in battle areas overseas. With that in mind, a Washington state company called HomeMovie.Com has created "Operation Enduring Love," which allows people to create a 30-minute video that will be converted into a format that military members can watch over the Internet. The streaming video can be viewed for up to a year, as many times as they'd like. >>Read the Full Article Families can send home videos over Web to soldiers 3.14.2005 A little time with family and friends can mean a lot for military personnel, especially if they're stationed in Afghanistan or Iraq. To help bring a taste of home to military personnel overseas, HomeMovie.com of Winthrop, Wash., is offering a free service dubbed Operation Enduring Love to convert up to 30 minutes of home video into a streaming presentation that can be viewed online. The service personnel and the senders will get e-mail with a password to view the video, which will be available for a year. Video offers Soldiers glimpses from home 3.11.2005 "I'm going to talk to daddy," said Avery Pierce, 2, as her mother, Courtney, pulled out a video camera. "She misses him," Courtney said. "She cries for him a lot now, especially at night when she's really tired."  Courtney, Avery and baby sister Abby are about to make a video for 2nd Lt. Chris Pierce, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 36th Engineer Group. He deployed Jan. 7 from Doughboy Stadium for a yearlong deployment to Iraq. "He'll be really excited to get this, because he keeps bugging me to send him short videos over the Web cam, but I can't get it to work," Courtney said. "Since my kids can't write, they can show off for their dad on the video." >>Read the Full Article HomeMovie.com Partners with WeddingChannel.com to Promote Videographers to Brides 3.7.2005 HomeMovie.com is an online service that provides a way for consumers to preserve, manage, and distribute their old home movies before they fade away to static on antiquated tapes. "We initially started our business to bring the benefits of our services to people for their home movies," says John Larsen, HomeMovie.com's CEO. But they discovered quickly that the consumer market wasn't a particularly good fit for their services. "They weren't really ready for streaming or DVD."   Company Provides Home Movies As a Gift to Soldiers 3.7.2005 A Winthrop, WA company that edits and preserves video has a free gift for the members of U.S. armed forces serving in Iraq or Afghanistan: 30 minutes with their friends and families. HomeMovie.Com has launched Operation Enduring Love to honor the dedication and sacrifice of service members and the families who support them.  Families are invited to send a 30-minute home video to the company.  HomeMovie.Com will convert it to DVD and make it available online by password to the service member, then mail back the video tape free of charge. >>Read the Full Article Families: Keeping Close Across the Miles 3.7.2005 Pictures are worth even more than a thousand words when you're deployed away from your family for months at a time. Two new volunteer efforts are underway to help improve morale and keep military families in touch across the miles - one involves donations of free new and used digital cameras, the other offers free 30-minute streaming video productions. Operation Enduring Love will convert home movies, videotapes or DVDs into one free 30-minute StreamingDVD for military families of troops deployed to Central or Southwest Asia.  The recording is then put online and password-protected so families can access it any time. HomeMovie.Com Streams Home Movies for Families of Troops Overseas 2.23.2005 Staying in touch with friends and family is a constant struggle for soldiers, especially those stationed on the battlefield in hotspots like Iraq and Afghanistan.  While long-distance phone cards are standard issue, local long-distance providers often charge exorbitant connection fees, making phone calls to the U.S. prohibitively expensive.  But even when phone calls are priced more reasonable, audio-only communication only goes so far in keeping families in touch, especially when there are children involved. >>Read the Full Article For Neglected Video, a Hollywood Touch 9.30.2004 If a tree falls in a forest and someone records it but never views the video, did the tree really fall?  As home video accumulates, many prolific tapers are pondering a close-to-home variation of the old Zen brainteaser. They have acquired a trove of family scenes, but are daunted by the tedium and time involved in playing it all back.  After all, searching for the good parts means sitting through the boring ones, too. Other sections may be marred by camera shake, exposure problems or wind gusts thundering into the microphone. But just letting the tapes pile up won't do either; home movies that are neither viewed nor inventoried can be said not to exist at all. >>Read the Full Article HomeMovie.Com's Online Authoring and Delivery Solutions Alter DVD Equation 05.01.04 Leading industry players, well-known to the professional wedding and event videography community, have introduced what is called "the world's first streaming video presented in an interactive DVD-style format.  HomeMovie.Com has developed leading-edge technology that not only enables the authoring, design and delivery of DVD content over the Internet, but also allows wedding clients to securely view the material as industry-standard Windows Media files at home or at work. >>Read the Full Article (.pdf - 4MB) Preserving Your Tapes on DVD 02.12.03 Video is great! -- Especially for capturing and sharing important events. In our personal lives, we preserve precious moments with families and friends. And for business, we record and distribute important presentations. But all those great moments are wound up on reels of tape: you need to load them into a player even to see what's on them, and all that shuttling through the tape makes finding the good stuff slow and irritating. Even worse, tapes are relative fragile, as they wear out and degrade over time, and they lose quality if you make copies to try to preserve or share them. >>Read the Full Article Digitize Your Family's Memories 11.24.02 Don't let time destroy your old VHS or Super-8 home movies. Here are ways to digitize your family's memories. With the Rise of DVDs, It's Transfer Time Again 06.30.02 Phillip Grace's childhood was chronicled in three-minute snippets on itty-bitty rolls of film, kept in dozens of metal film cans, then crammed into his closets to collect dust -- until the summer he broke his ankle. That's when boredom drove him to unearth the films his parents had lovingly created with their 16mm movie camera, starting with his sixth-birthday party. VHS to DVD: Convert Now 05.20.02 What’s to love about videotapes? They take up shelf space, the picture gets grainy after multiple playbacks and they can fade to black after a decade or two. For keepsake videos like a school play or family trip, you might want a better archive—like DVDs. Converting analog video into digital data used to be for pros only, but new services and better technology make it easy.. Saved Again: Those Memories Caught on VHS Tape Will Last Longer if Transferred to DVDs 02.07.02 You have two choices for that wedding video sitting in the bookcase: Convert it to DVD or kiss it goodbye. VHS tapes can begin fading to black in less than 15 years, depending on how they are stored. Simply running the same tape 50 times through a videocassette recorder can irrevocably harm a home movie's quality. And if the picture doesn't fade, chances are the tape itself will gradually turn brittle and break.