Boca Raton VHS to Digital, Photo Scanning & Film | Forever Studios
By Heather F.
Our table at 1000 Clint Moore Road, Suite 208, Boca Raton. Every order starts with somebody going through the box by hand. This is the building the other sixty-five pages on this site are talking about.
Does Forever Studios serve Boca Raton, Florida?
Yes. We are in Boca Raton, and you are welcome to walk in. This is the studio, not a drop-off point for one. Every tape, reel, slide and photograph is digitized in this building by the people who signed for it. If you would rather not carry it, we collect across Palm Beach County too.
- The studio
- 1000 Clint Moore Road, Suite 208, Boca Raton. 0 miles from Boca Raton. One building, no partner shops.
- Getting it to us
- Walk it in, Monday to Friday 9 to 6, Saturday 10 to 5. Or we collect anywhere in Palm Beach County, free on orders of $250 or more.
- What it costs
- Per item, not per box. $12 a tape, $0.50 a photo, $0.75 a slide, $15 a film reel or cassette, $13 a disc, $35 a hand restoration.
- How long
- 3 to 4 weeks standard. Rush is +25% at five days, +100% next day.
- What comes back
- Your originals, insured at declared value, with the files on USB, DVD or digital delivery.
Not sure what you have? Bring the box in and we will go through it with you at the table.
Call (561) 235-7808. A real person answers, Monday to Friday 9 to 6, Saturday 10 to 5.
Where we actually are
You can come and look at the room.
Nobody else digitizing your family's tapes will show you where it happens. We are on Clint Moore Road, open six days, and you are welcome to walk in and see the benches your collection will sit on.
What matters is not how close the drop-off is. It is how many buildings your originals pass through between leaving your house and coming home.
For us that number is one, and you can stand in it.
Or bring it in yourself
1000 Clint Moore Road, Suite 208
Boca Raton, FL 33487
Open Monday to Friday 9 to 6, Saturday 10 to 5
Driving directions from Boca Raton6
days a week you can walk in and see it
1
building your media ever enters
Logged by name on arrival. Checked three times by hand. Handed back to you.
Call the studio
A real person answers.
Tell us what is in the box and we will tell you what it costs before you leave the building.
What Boca Raton sends us
South Florida collections, mostly.
Since 2007 you start to recognize a city by what turns up in its boxes.
From $12 per tape
VHS and camcorder tape
Beach afternoons, school concerts, the drive down when the family first moved. Bring the box in and we will tell you which tapes are worth doing before you commit to anything.
- VHS, VHS-C, S-VHS, Hi8, MiniDV, Digital8, Betamax
- Warped and sticky tapes cleaned and baked before transfer
- MP4 on USB, DVD or digital delivery
From $0.50 per photo
Slide and photo scanning
The city filled up when everybody was shooting slides. Fifty years on the dyes have shifted, and the shift is not reversible in the carousel.
- 600 DPI archival scanning, prints, albums and negatives
- Carousels and trays unloaded and sequenced by us
- Color-shift correction on faded Ektachrome and Kodachrome
From $35 per image
Photo restoration and repair
Done at a bench in this building, by one technician who owns your order start to finish. You see the work before you approve it.
- Water and mold damage assessed before you commit
- Restoration by hand, revisions until you approve
- Colorization available for black and white
Published pricing, no estimate games
Ten tapes is $120. That is the whole quote.
No box fee, no bundle you have to fill, no per-order minimum. Bring a rough count in and you leave with a real number, not an estimate to be confirmed later.
Everything we accept
If it holds a memory, we have seen it.
Bring us the formats nobody else will touch. We keep the decks running for machines that stopped being made decades ago.
VHS, VHS-C, S-VHS, S-VHS-C, Betamax, Hi8, Video8, Digital8, MiniDV, MicroMV, and 3/4 inch U-matic
8mm, Super 8 and 16mm reels, sound or silent, up to 400 feet, scanned frame by frame to true 4K
Loose prints from wallet size to 11x14, bound and self-adhesive albums, 35mm slides, Kodachrome, medium format, and color or black and white negatives
Compact cassette, microcassette, reel-to-reel, DAT, vinyl records, and 8-track
DVD, mini DVD, CD, Blu-ray, and legacy data discs recovered where the surface allows
Not sure what you have? Photograph the pile and call. Most people describing “old home movies” turn out to have two or three different formats in the same box, and each one needs a different machine.
Why Boca Raton collections do not wait well
Seventy-five percent humidity, most of the year.
This is not a scare tactic. It is the reason we tell Boca Raton callers not to leave it another season.
~75%
Average relative humidity in Boca Raton
85%+
Routine wet season readings
Palm Beach County humidity sits around 75 percent most of the year and pushes past 85 percent in the wet season. Garages off Glades Road clear 100 degrees in August, and the storage closets in the condo communities along the Intracoastal were never built to hold magnetic tape.
Wilma in 2005 came ashore just south of here and Frances and Jeanne both crossed the county in 2004. Between the storms and the heat, every year of delay costs real footage. Mold, binder breakdown and the sticky-shed that ruins a deck do not reverse.
Where they end up instead: a climate-controlled floor, not a garage in August.
Every year a tape waits in a Boca Raton closet is footage you do not get back. We are ten minutes away and open six days.
(561) 235-7808The room, in order
Nine stops, and you can watch any of them.
Every other page on this site tells you your collection only ever enters one building. This is that building, and this is what happens inside it.
Stop 1 of 9
It comes across the counter
Most collections arrive by the armful, in whatever box they have lived in for thirty years. Nothing is opened before it is counted.
Stop 2 of 9
We go through it with you
At the table, while you are standing there. Which tapes are worth doing, which are not, what the whole thing costs. You leave knowing the number.
Stop 3 of 9
Everything is logged by name
Counted and recorded against your order the same day it lands. Your files come back carrying the labels you wrote, not IMG_0001 through IMG_0400.
Stop 4 of 9
A tape goes into a deck, by hand
One at a time, on machines maintained for the purpose. No batching, no autoloader, nobody running forty at once to hit a quota.
Stop 5 of 9
This is the row it happens on
Every order has its own bin along this row, and stays in it until the order is finished. It is the only room your media enters.
Stop 6 of 9
Somebody is watching the transfer
Faults get caught here, while the tape is still on the deck, rather than after the files reach you.
Stop 7 of 9
Photographs are scanned flat
600 DPI, in this building, on a bench you can walk past. Slides and negatives are checked by eye first.
Stop 8 of 9
Corrections are made by hand
One technician owns your order from start to finish and signs off on it. Not a queue, not a batch, not a subcontractor.
Stop 9 of 9
Printing and framing happen here too
Same building, same people. Nothing is shipped out to be finished somewhere cheaper.
If you are still comparing
The mail-in companies put this in their terms, not their ads.
We are not going to characterize them. These are their own published words.
“YOU RECOGNIZE THAT YOU MAY NOT RECEIVE YOUR MATERIALS BACK … BY PLACING AN ORDER WITH LEGACYBOX, YOU ACCEPT THIS RISK.”
Legacybox Services Terms & Conditions. Capitalization theirs.
“…we may choose to compensate you for loss or damage; or we may decline, entirely, to issue a refund or provide any compensatory monies.”
Southtree Services Terms & Conditions.
“IMEMORIES MAXIMUM LIABILITY … WILL BE LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT OF FEES ACTUALLY PAID BY YOU TO IMEMORIES FOR THE APPLICABLE SERVICE … FOR THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS PERIOD IMMEDIATELY PRIOR TO WHEN ANY CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION AROSE, OR $100, WHICHEVER IS LESS.”
iMemories Terms of Service. Capitalization theirs.
Legacybox, Southtree and Kodak Digitizing are the same company, AMB Media LLC, in the same Chattanooga building. For what it is worth, you can stand in the room where your collection will be digitized. Ask any of them for that.
Boca Raton, Florida
The city your collection came from.
Boca Raton filled up in the 1970s and 1980s, so the family archives here start in a specific place: slide carousels from the first winters, camcorder tape from the children who grew up on the beach, and the estate collections that surface when a house on the east side finally changes hands.
Art museum
Boca Raton Museum of Art
In Mizner Park since 2001, with a sculpture garden and a permanent collection built up since the museum was founded in 1950. Ten minutes from the studio.
Town centre
Mizner Park
The open-air centre on Federal Highway, built on the site of the old Boca Mall and named for Addison Mizner, the architect who gave the city its look.
Nature and wildlife
Gumbo Limbo Nature Center
Boardwalks through the coastal hammock, a sea turtle rehabilitation facility and the tower over the Intracoastal. A standing school trip for generations of Boca children.
Historic district
Old Floresta
Addison Mizner's 1925 residential district, twenty-nine original houses under old banyans, listed on the National Register.
Historic building
Old Town Hall
The 1927 Mizner-designed town hall on Federal Highway, now the Boca Raton Historical Society and a museum of the city's first century.
Landmark hotel
The Boca Raton
Mizner's Cloister Inn opened in 1926 and became the resort that put the city on the map. Much of what turns up in local estate collections was photographed on that lawn.
Where our Boca Raton customers are
97K+
Population
1925
Incorporated
0 mi
To our studio
no drive at all
Drive time
Or bring it yourself
Just come in.
No appointment, no counter, no middleman. The people at the table are the people who do the work.
1000 Clint Moore Road, Suite 208
Boca Raton, FL 33487
Open Monday to Friday 9 to 6, Saturday 10 to 5
What Boca Raton-area customers say
Rated 4.9 from 3,937 verified reviews.
★★★★★
The films you worked with were 80 years old. I was very impressed with the sections of movies you were able to copy and enhance. My family couldn't believe how good they looked.
★★★★★
Received my link, very easy process. Shipping, status updates, app usage all were terrific. Even came through with a delivery right before Christmas. Was able to re-live memories with all my families over the holidays. Thank you Forever Studios
★★★★★
I've always hesitated to drop my valuable memories in a box and ship it off to parts unknown, but Forever Studios has made converting my old tapes easy. Five stars!
Frequently asked, Boca Raton
The questions South Florida callers actually ask.
Can I just walk in?
Yes. 1000 Clint Moore Road, Suite 208, Monday to Friday 9 to 6 and Saturday 10 to 5. No appointment is needed. Bring the box and somebody will go through it with you at the table, tell you what is worth doing and what it costs, before you commit to anything.
Is this the actual studio, or a drop-off point?
This is the studio. Everything Forever Studios digitizes is digitized in this building, by the people who signed for it. There is no partner shop, no franchise and nowhere your collection gets forwarded to. You are welcome to see the room it happens in.
Do you pick up in Boca Raton?
Yes, if carrying it in is not practical. Pickup is free on orders of $250 or more anywhere in Palm Beach County, and $30 plus mileage below that. Most Boca customers simply bring it in, because we are ten minutes away.
How long does it take?
Three to four weeks standard. Rush is available: 25 percent for five days, 100 percent for next day. You collect it here, or we deliver it back to you, whichever suits.
I only have a few tapes. Is that worth your time?
Yes. Pricing is per item, not per box, so three tapes is three tapes. There is no minimum order and no bundle you have to fill.
We are clearing a parent's house in Boca. Can you handle all of it?
Yes, and in the east-side neighbourhoods and the country club communities that is a great deal of what we do. When a house changes hands the media surfaces all at once and usually on a deadline. We count it on site or at the table here, and you get a real number before any work starts.
Preserving Florida's most important memories since 2007
Why Boca Raton families walk it in.
One studio
Everything happens at 1000 Clint Moore Road. Never sub-contracted, never sent on to another facility.
Insured
Shipped back at declared value, or collect it from the studio yourself.
A+
BBB rating, with thousands of reviews across Reviews.io, Google, Facebook and Yelp.
3x checked
Every tape, reel and photo reviewed by the technician, the studio leader, and your project manager.
Talk to a real person right now
Tell us what is in the box.
We will tell you what it costs and what is worth doing, before you leave. Call first or simply come in.
Come and see it
1000 Clint Moore Road, Suite 208. Monday to Friday 9 to 6, Saturday 10 to 5. Walk in with the box and somebody will go through it with you at the table.
Or bring it yourself
1000 Clint Moore Road, Suite 208, Boca Raton, FL 33487. Monday to Friday 9 to 6, Saturday 10 to 5.
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