Envision Video Services

Envision Video Services Envision Video Services is an award-winning video production company. Our mission is to offer high quality video services at a competitive price.

We specialize in video production and media transfer services, including converting videotapes, film reels, photos, slides, and audio cassettes into digital formats. Too many people are unable to watch old family movies any longer due to outdated technology. This causes people to miss out on reminiscing and reliving their memories with family and friends. Envision Video Services offers convenient

film and video transfer services to allow everyone to finally be able to watch their old movies again; enabling them to pass the memories down to the next generation.

05/21/2026

In this podcast clip Ellen and Linda talk about Ellen's cat.

05/15/2026

Ellen talks about dirty tapes (no, not those kind... get your mind out of the gutter).

05/13/2026

This strange gadget is called the Eidophone. And it is basically an analog camera for the human voice. Invented by singer Margaret Watts Hughes, it’s a tube with a rubber membrane stretched over the end, covered in liquid paste or powder.

She discovered that when you sing a pitch into the tube, the air pressure forces the rubber to vibrate. By holding just one single, steady note and changing her volume, the sound waves naturally pushed the wet paste outward into perfect shapes of flowers, ferns, and trees.

05/07/2026

Have you ever wondered what sound COULD look like?

Cymatics is the study of visible sound and vibration. While the term was coined in the 1960s by Swiss physician Hans Jenny, he was only formalizing a phenomenon that had been observed for centuries.

05/06/2026

S-VHS (Super VHS) launched in 1987.

On a single S-VHS tape, you could have a standard linear mono track, basic audio, then a Hi-Fi stereo track. And on high-end decks: an additional PCM digital audio track.

That digital track used a modulation scheme that allowed it to squeeze between the video tracks on the tape's helical scan.

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04/14/2026

Before magnetic tape or digital audio, film carried its own soundtrack, literally printed onto the film itself.

In 16mm optical sound, audio is encoded as a visual waveform running alongside the image frames. As the film passes through a projector, a steady light shines through this track, and a photoelectric sensor converts the changing light patterns back into sound.

There are two main formats:

Variable density, where sound is represented by changing darkness

Variable area, where sound is represented by changing width

Because the audio track is physically offset from the picture frames, it can move smoothly past the sound reader even while the image is being advanced frame by frame, keeping everything synchronized.

04/09/2026

Polyvision was the name given by the French film critic Émile Vuillermoz to a specialized widescreen film format devised exclusively for the filming and projection of Abel Gance’s 1927 film Napoléon.

Polyvision involved the simultaneous projection of three reels of silent film arrayed in a horizontal row, making for a total aspect ratio of 4:1 (1.33×3). Polyvision’s extremely wide aspect ratio was the widest aspect ratio yet seen, even though it is technically just three images side by side.

This configuration is considered to be a similar precursor to Cinerama, which would debut a quarter of a century later; however, it is unlikely that Polyvision was a direct inspiration for later widescreen techniques, as the triptych sequence of Napoléon was cut from the film by its distributors after only a few screenings and was not seen again until Kevin Brownlow compiled his restorations from the 1970s onwards.

04/01/2026

🚨 SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT! 🚨

Introducing TapeIt™ the all-new service that takes your digital videos and converts them to VHS! 📼

It's the retro way, or the highway!

03/31/2026

Before Photoshop, before CGI, this is how you made the impossible.

In 1948, photographer Philippe Halsman spent six hours and 26 takes throwing three cats, a bucket of water, and Salvador Dalí himself into the air to create one single frame.

The result: Dali Atomicus, ended up in Time magazine and permanently changed the way portrait photography was approached.

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