Digitizing Business **sustainable in 2024?

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[@popretro1]

The part about no car payments is key advice for anyone in any field! Great job on your shop and biz!

[@RustyTheGeek]

Sorry to hear you don't feel like it's sustainable but I get it. It is a labor of love. But you've really grown! Just be careful that you don't get so big that you can't do it by yourself. Once you have to get an employee, it will get so much more stressful. I really like how you changed things. It looks very well thought out and customer friendly! Running any small business is a challenge. I think there are a lot of people that are more comfortable with dealing with a storefront and the appearance of an established business. I hope you keep rocking for a long time. Thanks for sharing!

[@alexbright7735]

Wish there was something like this near by. This is an important business.

[@EmeraldCoastDigitizing]

hey commenters! hopefully this was helpful info!

[@BRGKasumi77Main]

It's very helpful bro!

[@austinwright6722]

Very helpful!

[@AbeStephan]

Do you wish you could easily get NEW quality VHS VCRs ?

[@DavidVillanueva-r4p]

Great advise. I work from home digitizing home videos but having a store from would be nice for the exposure for customers to walk in. Thanks for your awesome videos! greetings from the other side of the country!

[@RustyTheGeek]

Oooohhh yeeeaaah! I worked on so many cassettes when I was a kid. That really brings back some awesome memories!

[@KindCountsDeb3773]

Your a treasure Young man, I will contat u to help me with some precious family vhs I have to be digitized. TY 👍👍😊😊

[@austinwright6722]

Thanks for sharing this Sean! Would love to see more videos like this. I started a work from home digitizing business in my city of about 300 thousand people and it's been working great. I've learned alot from your channel too. Thanks for the awesome videos!

[@vejayforrester6008]

Great videos Sean. I wfh doing what you do, at a smaller scale. I have learnt alot from your videos, which have helped me to grow a little. Thanks again from Surrey/ England

[@OnlyHumanYT]

Some of my friends have suggested that I should digitize tapes for people as a side hustle or even as a future business since I do enjoy old analog stuff like VHS and such. I digitized some of my family tapes and my interest grew from there, but I don't necessarily have the best transferring equipment at the moment, so I have been wanting to save up for better equipment so I could actually start doing this as a business.

[@13lake]

I've done my own transferring with various methods and enjoy it, but I am having my first hiccup now. Using a cleaned vcr, Black Magic Studio analog to SDI converter, and a Black Magic Ultra Studio Recorder 3G, into a Mac Mini via Thunderbolt 3, into OBS. That's a lot, but I get the best un-messed with, close to original signal I can. Have transferred plenty of footage successfully, getting desired quality, but every now and then, I have a loud pop during recording. When it starts, it's going to keep doing it intermittently. But, I can power off the vcr, shutdown OBS, try again and no popping. Even another vcr popped with a different monitor and speakers, so it's gotta be the tape, but eventually the entire two or three hour tape will have no popping, not one. I can't pin down the culprit. Tape audio is fine, some tapes don't have a pop, I've cleaned heads and audio sensors. It's just a roll of the dice. Any ideas?

[@AndrewBowling]

If the pop is audible, I would consider that you’ve added multiple AC to DC conversions. it’s possible this is coming from a power supply. Try using different power circuits, or output audio into a field recorder and sync after.

[@TeardownReuse]

my opinion on Digitizing Business if you was in europe or for anyone watching this from europe this wouldn't work at all unless your in center of the capitals London, Rome, Paris etc and then have fun competing with jessops in the UK for example and other major camera places that have 20+ stores and offer the service for super cheap already.

[@christopherd.winnan8701]

Is there a similar video, made by a European digitiser?

[@gabungan69]

You should do hunt a government contract for this type of service.

[@gmaudioEvisual]

hello! Your channel is really cool! Here in the capital of Brazil, I also do this service, but there are several other professionals who also do it, but using low quality capture cards. I saw that you use several cards and several macbooks too. Here I use a Blackmagic card on a computer with Windows 7. It's more work, but I like the results better than cards that upscale via USB. Anyway, I liked your channel, you gained a subscriber from Brazil!

[@AwesomeCameras]

Great insight! I've been toying around with opening a camera shop(of sorts) in my area. And figured I'd add some digitizing services for another income source

[@nicholasryan7612]

Honestly, I'm actually really interested in doing this myself. I would go a little bit extra step, I would do like old photo scanning and bringing it to high-quality and touch up like Photoshop and scanning other things as well as videos and stuff like that. Transferring auto recordings and everything else. I would be interested in like having a FaceTime or Skype or Zoom call with you to figure out if it's even worth my time of messing around with this.

[@EmeraldCoastDigitizing]

Do it. Just make sure customer wants that and make it a higher price option. Value your time and skill wisely.

[@12av67]

I can transfer most video and audio formats but can't do 8mm or super8 film yet till i get one of those movie film scanners. They are a bit expensive.i have been transferring reel to reel audio for years mostly from my private collection. I also transfer my old 78 rpm records and my edison diamond discs to my computer.

[@carlostavaresjr958]

One thing I noticed as I was watching your videos is how much you would benefit from a network NAS device. Each of our recording rigs can record to the that NAS using a file structure then to final media for your client. That would sigificantly make everything a bit more efficient.

[@EmeraldCoastDigitizing]

I have that set up.

[@AndrewBowling]

He also uses apples, so it would be very easy to use ARD and use one iMac to remotely control all of the Macs and you could use Automator, too. There’s also some late model, VHS players that record to DVD ram disc or output by HDMI, which would simplify some of this .

[@RestrictedRican]

@@EmeraldCoastDigitizingwhere?

[@Iwantthehandlesillydemon]

i wanna be a phone repair person :) love your vids!

[@EmeraldCoastDigitizing]

Same business model!

[@laserfilmlab]

Your making money. You need to save at least 10% for retirement. But your making money. A lot if you have 50% for yourself. You are doing a great job in such a short period of time.

[@christopherd.winnan8701]

@@EmeraldCoastDigitizing - Reminds me of the toy car restoration business. What is the best way to add KZbin as an additional income stream to this kind of biz?

[@MassMediaArtistry]

I have a bunch of broken high 8 can u splice them also

[@jerlg]

What is the make/model of that 8mm/Super8mm player for film you showed in the front of the shop? Thanks.

[@EmeraldCoastDigitizing]

Kodak moviedeck 285 is the model with sound that I have

[@christopherd.winnan8701]

@@EmeraldCoastDigitizing - Would you mind saying how much you paid for it?

[@AndrewBowling]

I haven’t messed with unfinalized dvds from a camcorder, but if the format is .TS, might be salvaged thru software.

[@EvaristoBrag]

767 / 5.000 USB drives in Brazil are not cheap. The best ones, such as original Sandisk and Kingston, are not as affordable as in the United States. I believe this is due to taxes on imported products. As for the quality of larger video drives, they are much better and can be used to record the entire or almost entire collection of the client, especially if they are 128GB or 256GB. I would like to invest and earn money like you in video capture. The demand for video capture is practically not there in the region where I live as it should be. I currently work for a city hall. The salary is not the best and I always need extra income to make ends meet. I have the resources to work, but not the demand. I hope that one day this will change. Good luck with your business. I hope you can achieve what you want.

[@SpectraVision-f5o]

Microcenter cards are a great value

[@EmeraldCoastDigitizing]

I agree I’ve only had like 2 out of 500 not work properly. But not a quick drive

[@VantaCanadaBlack]

The movement of the cam actually gave me sea sickness, cool work though.

[@CantankerousDave]

The obvious issue is that it's inherently finite. There's only so many tapes out there.

[@EmeraldCoastDigitizing]

There are billions still I bet. I don’t think there will ever run out. They will all fall apart before the work drys up. I’m sure of it. If those big companies are still making money… then it’s fine.. also it will become more recovery based as time continues and I’ll probably be 100 still doing this. But price will increase. Fingers crossed

[@joeyjustin6895]

NOT SUSTAIABLE AS WERE ALL GOING BACK. AS CDS SCRATCH AND MEM STICKS FAIL

[@EmeraldCoastDigitizing]

Gotta have multiple back ups. I love explaining this to customers.