Keep your company up-to-date and competitive in the workplace, for FREE!

You may not work in the media industry, but the media is your gateway to the world when spreading your organization's messages. You have to stay up-to-date to be competitive in today's workplace. Don't miss the chance to be introduced to the latest trends by a well-respected industry professional, for FREE!

Introduce your staff to new and creative ways of presenting (and selling) an organization's message.  HOME VIDEO STUDIO, a visual communications company, is now offering an exciting series we're calling "Technology Coffee Break" to introduce new media trends.

Three break-through sessions (each approximately 45 minutes in length):

KILLER SLIDESHOWS: Making effective slides using Microsoft PowerPoint

DVD 101: What you need to know about harnessing the latest DVD technology

PODCASTING: Audio and Video for the masses, an affordable way to get a message out

How does it work?  You request one of our three workshops for your staff and we'll do the rest.  You can come to our studio or we can come to you.  We even provide great coffee and bagels!  

For more information, call, email, or drop by for a visit at our new location: 500 SW 3rd Street, Lee's Summit, MO 64086.

June is UPGRADE month at Home Video Studio of Lee's Summit

Greetings Home Video Studio customers and friends.  This month we're celebrating our last month of operating the business in our home.  You heard it right, we're upgrading!  On July 1st, we'll be moving the business to 500 SW 3rd Street in Lee's Summit.  Moving to a walk-in/retail production facility is very exciting (and my two children are excited to turn a bigger part of the house into a playroom).  :)

In celebration of our studio upgrade, we're offering some free and discounted upgrades to you on all new orders placed in June.  Transfer your 8mm/Super-8mm films or videos to DVD and receive a free upgrade to 24k Archival Gold DVDs (a $15 value).  Upgrade your transfer order with a deluxe DVD case package with thumbnail images from your videos for $5 (regular $15).  Have one-of-a-kind audio recordings (tapes, records, audio reel-to-reel)?  Upgrade them to 24k Archival Gold CDs.  Place an order for one of our fantastic photo keepsakes on DVD with music and receive a free digital archive of your photos on a separate disc (this allows you to print, email, or simply stow-away your old photos for safekeeping - up to a $100 value).

How else can you upgrade?  Well, you can upgrade to savings by supporting our efforts online.  

Write a testimonial about our services on our website (we've got some great testimonies up there right now) and receive a $15 gift card toward your next purchase.  Follow this link:

http://www.homevideostudio.com/video%2Dservices/44/testimonials.cfm

Subscribe to our YouTube Channel (watch some of our great productions) and subscibe/follow our Blog, "Convergence," and receive a $5 gift card each toward your next purchase (that's $10 if you do both).  Follow these links:

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=chadgodfrey74&view=videos

http://chadgodfrey.blogspot.com/

As always, we thank you for the tremendous support you've provided over the years.  Let us know if we can help you or others you know.  Help our June go out with a bang!

Home Video Studio March Specials

Greetings and Happy St. Patrick's Day Home Video Studio friends and customers!  This month's special truly includes a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.  Gold DVDs and CDs that is!  Our Gold Archival Grade DVDs and CDs preserve your family photos, home movies, and critical corporate data and offer additional protection from scratches and corrosion.

March is photo archival month and all photo orders today through March 31 are offered at an additional 20% off. Have boxes of unorganized photos, slides, or negatives?  Give 'em a makeover with our digital archival service.  Revitalize those memories onto premium grade archival gold discs.

Our digital archive service is exactly as it sounds, archival.  Your discs containing your images are 100% as good as their original format...in many cases better due to our natural color-correction and enhancement process.  Play them on your DVD or Blu-Ray player, view them on your computer, print them, share them, email them, post them to Facebook or Flickr, or create your own custom slideshows.  They're so much more functional than they once were!

We had a client who recently experienced a devastating house fire.  No one was hurt as the family was at work and at school when the fire happened; however, they lost the entire contents of their home.  All their precious memories (photo albums, videos, etc.) were lost in the embers.  Fortunately, we created an entire digital archive of their memories nearly a year ago and, at their request, maintained copies here in the studio.  Their memories were completely restored.

Don't take risk...put it on disc!  Be proactive and backup your critical content.  Give us a call today.  In Lee's Summit (816) 246-8888 or Toll-Free (888) 636-8885.  We're ready to create some memorable experiences.

Happy Valentine's Day from Home Video Studio. Nine Ways to Save this February.

Greetings Home Video Studio friends and customers!  It's cold and blustery in Lee's Summit, but preserving your precious photo and video memories to DVD will keep you warm and fuzzy all winter long.

In celebration of Valentine's Day, we're offering Nine Ways to Save this February:

1. Film (8mm, Super-8mm, and 16mm to DVD): 10% Off

2. Video Editing: 10% Off

3. Video Production: 10% Off

4. Video Tape Transfers to DVD: 10% Off

5. Photos and Slides to DVD: 10% Off

6. CD and DVD Duplication: 15% Off

7. Receive a $15 Gift Card by subscribing as a follower to this blog

8. Receive a second $15 Gift Card by posting a personal testimonial of our services on our website (click "Testimonials" on www.godfreyvideo.com)

9. Take an additional 5% OFF your entire order when placed by February 14th

Where are your treasured memories?  We'd venture to say they're in boxes in the attic, basement, or closet somewhere.  Give us a call today.  816.246.8888.  We're ready to create some memorable experiences.

Chad Godfrey and The Crew at Home Video Studio Lee's Summit 

Editor on Board

I'm pleased to announce Matt Terwilliger, our new Director of Editing and Post-Production.  Matt completed a summer internship with us in 2008 and has recently finished a degree in Interactive Digital Media from Northwest Missouri State University.  I'm excited to have Matt aboard.  He brings a lot of experience in photography, design, and motion graphics to the table and will offer a fresh perspective on the "look and feel" of all projects that come through our doors.  Welcome Matt!

Here's to a New Year!

Now that it's nearly the 6th of January, it may sound cliché to offer you a "Happy New Year," but I truly feel one is in order.  I hope you feel renewed in this new year, ready to take on the experiences and change it will bring.

I don't know about you, but I've created a lot of goals for 2009:  family goals, health goals, business goals, and the list continues (how about just keeping up with this blog?).  The number one goal, however, is not to treat my goals like typical "resolutions" but to see them through to actual achievement this year.  This, of course, requires the break-down of each goal into action steps that are measurable.  

My aim in telling you this is accountability.  It is my hope that by broadcasting this to the world, or to the few beings that actually read this (thank you, by the way), I may keep my goals in check this year.  By the same token, I hope you find people and methods to keep your goals in check this year too.

Here's to a really great year.  May you be blessed with abundance and achievement like never before!

Creating Memorable Experiences

Can you believe it's November already?  Fall has seemed to blaze by so quickly this year!  With October behind us, we have entered our Christmas season at Home Video Studio and it's in full force.  You might ask, "What service offerings are popular at Christmas time?"  Thanks for asking!

First, let's talk about who our services are for.  Well, they're for everyone of course, but during Christmas they happen to be great for those who either have everything or for those you just don't know what to buy for like your mom or dad, your brother(s) and/or sister(s), grandparents, kids, boss, employees, etc.  Give them the gift of their memories!  As the graphic says, "It's time to go digital!  Transfer your photos, slides, videos, and film to DVD!"  

At Home Video Studio, we are creators and changers of content.  We shoot, edit, transfer, and duplicate video each and every day.  Daily, people bring in a myriad of obsolete formats as well as new and up-to-date media.  Customers bring in boxes and bags of old photos and home movies from 50 years ago.  Others bring in memory cards, tapes, and discs containing digital pictures and video they just shot yesterday.  We take this "content" in whatever format it may be, edit it, duplicate it, or simply update it to today's latest-greatest technology.  A perfect example is the migration of your family's old VHS videotapes to DVD or the conversion of your audio cassettes or LPs to compact disc (or to your iPod Touch or other MP3 player, for that matter).  We have equipment to handle any format.  Betamax?  Yep.  Super-8mm or 16mm with sound?  Absolutely!  Broadcast audio and video formats?  Those too.  We like to say, "If you can see it or hear it, we can produce (or reproduce) it!"    

Do you have old tapes of your kids (or when you were a kid) that no one watches because you no longer have a player that works?  Perhaps you and your siblings can go in together on a gift for your parents that includes a DVD of old photos or slides and their favorite music from the good ol' days.

One of the greatest parts of our job is seeing and hearing the impact our work has on the lives of others.  We like hearing about the kids that watch the DVDs of their parents and grandparents from long ago ("Wow grandma, you really did look like mom back then!").  How joyful (and tearful) one of our customers was who stumbled upon an old 78 record of her father speaking to her mother while he was stationed overseas during WWII.  Her father died in the war when our customer was very young.  While she'd seen pictures of him, she had never really heard his voice.  

Stories like this happen quite often in our studio.  Where are your treasured memories?   I'd venture to say they're in boxes in the attic, basement, or closet somewhere.  As you're thinking about what to give and who to give to this year, why not make it memorable?  Give me a call.  I'm ready to create another memorable experience.