Video to DVD transfer:
This is one of our hottest Profit Centers. Virtually everyone has tapes they cherish, but the tapes are collecting dust in a closet somewhere, slowly deteriorating. Many family and business tapes from the 80s and early 90s are already in danger. Think about all of the business, churches, schools, and other organizations that have hundreds, if not thousands, of programs on videotape. This huge market offers you great profit potential. Transfer tapes to DVD and give new life to the your clients’ memories.
DVD Authoring:
DVD Authoring is a profit center that goes a giant step beyond simple DVD transfers. You can provide this service for businesses, organizations, and individuals – the same customers who come to you for simple transfers. When you transfer tapes to DVD, you can suggest to your customers that they go the extra step and let you create a DVD with chapters, arranged chronologically or by event. Your customers will be able to access these chapters with the touch of a button. They get convenience; you gain income.
Authoring, therefore, involves adding these “chapters” and other helpful program facilitation to the DVD for the viewer, just as you see on commercially released movies. Some of our owners really get into the intense authoring with chapter markers, custom layouts with motion backgrounds, elaborate menus, and so forth. DVD authoring for businesses and professional uses can be extremely profitable. Rather than using the word “authoring,” for individuals, we use the term “DVD Deluxe!™” It is easier for individuals to remember and understand. HVSI offers specialized training in both basic and advanced DVD authoring.
FamilyTIME™ videos:
A FamilyTIME™ video makes your client the star! You’ll create a professionally edited program featuring the highlights your client chooses. Perhaps it’s a “Baby’s First Year” video, a “Sweet Sixteen” video, or even a “How We Spent Our Summer Vacation” video. You’ll edit and add appropriate music, titles, special effects, and more into a three- to five-minute video.
These videos are great fun to put together, and when your client sees the end result, you’d better have some tissue handy! We’ll teach you everything you need to know to create this emotional (and profitable) product. Speaking of profits, our FamilyTIME™ videos are very profitable, starting at $ 499.00, with almost no out-of-pocket expenses!
Sports Scholarship videos:
This is almost a business in itself! Usually starting with the junior year, coaches urge parents to put their student-athlete on videotape to send to colleges and universities for scholarship consideration. Even a partial scholarship is helpful. We’ve done Sports Scholarship videos for all of the major sports and even for some you might not imagine: basketball, football, soccer, baseball, hockey, volleyball, track, cross-county, swimming, ice-skating, skiing, softball, and lacrosse. The list is practically endless and even includes the performing arts. A student-athlete with a well-made video that chronicles the skills required to get to the next level will have a greater chance at winning a college scholarship, saving the family thousands of dollars. These are fun and profitable projects. These videos are in big demand and run from three hundred fifty dollars to thousands of dollars!
Legal Video Services:
Become the Audio/Video Department of local law offices, investigators, police departments, and insurance companies. It seems as though security cameras are everywhere, and law enforcement officials need help with these tapes all of the time. Furthermore, they usually need multiple copies of the tapes, and they need them fast! Our studio owners have assisted in many cases. We specialize in accentuating audio, pulling video photos from tape, and adding light to dark video. With your ability to make copies fast, you’re in for a tremendous profit!
This is your LifeTIME™ video!:
Everyone has a story to tell. We watch the biographies of the rich and famous every day on the Biography channel and E! Well, more and more people are creating tributes for their loved ones and even for themselves. A LifeTIME™ video is a sixty- to ninety-minute video that you create. These are once-in-a-lifetime videos – very special and very complex. Pricing begins at $10,000.00 and usually goes up from there. You will do interviews and gather photos, movies, memorabilia, slides, etc. You’ll put everything on video, documentary style. These videos require considerable skill, so you probably won’t be doing one in your first year in business. You’ll need to become highly proficient with your video editing system.
Important Note: these LifeTIME™ videos require from six months to a full year to produce. The customer must have the desire, the money, and the materials to qualify for such a major project.
Video to Computer File Conversion:
The proliferation of the computer and the Internet offers many opportunities for you to convert your customers’ videos into formats suitable for computer and Internet distribution. Video to JPEG, Quicktime, MPEG, Windows Media Player are just a few examples. With your equipment package, these conversions are easy and profitable! For example, one of our owners recently received $ 4,000.00 to convert eight hours of video to MPEG!
Power Point Conversions:
Businesses frequently need their popular Power Point presentations transferred to video. They usually can’t figure out how to do it, but you’ll know how! Furthermore, they usually need multiple copies (10, 20, or even 50 copies) of the presentation on video after you’ve made the transfer for them – more “bounce back” profit for you! Think about all of the local businesses, college students, schools, and individuals in your area, and you’ll have plenty of opportunities to convert Power Point presentations into video.
Churches, organizations, and individuals have a similar needs. They’re just regular people trying to make their own “photo keepsakes” using Power Point (because it usually comes with their computer). They get stuck when they try to convert it to video, so they call you. It’s a win-win situation!
DVD and CD duplications:
This profit center is huge. With your equipment package, your can offer what many businesses, schools, organizations, and artists need – duplication of their creations. These clients are distributing video programs and digital information on CD and DVD, and every day there are more and more opportunities for you to assist them. Start your duplication machines and let them make money for you while you complete other projects. This is another area that is almost always humming and is an extraordinary moneymaker! Consider this example: what if you ran just fifty (50) DVDs overnight at $ 14.95 each? That’s an excellent profit margin, isn’t it? And, yes, your machines work while you sleep! It should make you smile just thinking about it.
Video Tape Repair:
You’ll be amazed at how many clients will bring you damaged videos that contain their precious memories or important pieces of history. We will show you how to repair them, effectively bringing them back to life. Most clients will also want back up copies or DVD transfers of these tapes. When you tell them that you specialize in repairing tapes, they will be thrilled that you can save their priceless materials.
“You’re the Producer”:
Remember, HVSI owners don’t shoot weddings or other similar events, but we do rent cameras and/or schedule crews for such activities. We provide a handy guide to assist customers in producing their own videos.
Now, here is the best part: after the customer has “produced” his own video, he brings it to you to edit! You can even rent projectors to them after the edit to show the finished product to their group. Again, another win-win situation. You don’t get bogged down in unprofitable activities (shooting weddings, for example), but you do make an excellent profit editing the event for your customers. Everybody wins; everybody’s happy!
Some customers may ask you to help them with ideas that they want to develop on video, such as music videos, screenplays, and a host of other projects. Again, you can help these creative types without getting involved in the actual production itself. Once they’re finished shooting, you get the editing – which is all you want anyway! These projects are both fun and creative.
“Back In Time” RETRO Videos:
These videos are very popular for class reunions. Here is the scenario. Your customer wants to do something for his 25th year class reunion. Maybe he is just a member of the class, a teacher, the class president, or the reunion committee chairperson – whatever. T he point is, he has a need. No one has all of the photos from those high school years. Most people just have the ones that they were in, such as sports or music. But one of the most enjoyable parts of reunions is looking back at ALL of the pictures (or at least a lot of them). Here’s where your home video studio comes in.
You can use the yearbooks from the class era, along with the music of the time, and paint a really cool “retro video” for all of the classmates in the school. Nearly everybody has yearbooks. Just think about all of those nostalgic baby boomers out there! Take a quick look at classmates.com. The market for RETRO videos is huge, and considering the duplication possibilities, the profit potential is even bigger! This profit center is endless.
Photo Video Keepsakes:
Another of our most lucrative profit centers is photo videos. There's virtually no out-of-pocket costs, and you can do these projects during non-primetime (while watching TV or listening to music, for example). Photo videos are also fun to do and very rewarding because you're helping families archive their entire history.
The vast majority of our HVSI owners say that this is their favorite profit center. In addition to being really, really fun and creative, the best part is that it is extremely profitable. Most photo video projects range from $ 200.00 to $ 3,500.00. Think about it: everybody has photos around the house. You simply capture them on video, add appropriate music and titles, blend in a few special effects, voila – you’ve created a very moving and emotional product. These projects are great for birthdays, anniversaries, weddings, reunions, and so forth, and, again, you have virtually no costs involved in producing them!
Video Tape Duplication:
If you’re looking for a high profit, consistent income profit center, duplication is definitely it. Best of all, we'll show you how to supercharge this profit center, how to make, for example, $ 75.00 profit on one tape!
With the advent of DVDs, you might think that this is a dying area of your business. It is NOT! This one won’t go away for a while, because, remember, there are hundreds of thousands of VCRs out there. People still use them and their VHS cameras. You’ll have plenty of business and individual customers coming to you to duplicate their tapes for many, many years. It’s easy to do, and it’s definitely a “no-brainer.” So, don’t ignore this high profit area of your business.
Video Tape Editing:
Consumer-grade digital video cameras are among the best things ever to happen to our home studio business. Thousands upon thousands of companies, individuals, organizations, not-for-profits, schools, churches, you name it, are shooting fairly professional quality video every day. The problem: they don’t have a clue when it comes to editing. That’s where you come in. In fact, editing is HVSI’s founder and CEO, Robert Hanley’s, favorite profit center. It’s just so much fun and so lucrative!
You can get as creative as you want. Your clients may be Joe from the First Baptist Church or Mrs. Wiley from some big corporation downtown. It doesn’t matter. You know how to edit video, and with so much content being created out there, you could make a business out of just editing.
We teach you what to charge (anywhere from $ 95.00 to $ 175.00 per hour) and how to make a value added project (charging $ 3,000.00 for a video edit that only took you three hours). Pricing is the key. Finding clients is the easy part. Editing is the creative and fun part.
International conversions:
The emerging “Global Village” means money in your pocket as more and more Americans need to convert their videos into PAL, SECAM, or even NTSC formats. The global economy has created a number of scenarios that affect your business directly. Residents over here in America have Mom and Dad living back in Germany, for example. Or, Bill and Barb have traveled to the Vatican and want to share their tapes with friends all over Europe and the Far East. The fact is, most tapes from other countries won’t play here and ours won’t play over there. It is a seller’s market because it is hard to find companies like yours to convert these tape formats. You can do it, almost automatically, and do several other projects at the same time.
Audio Tape Duplication:
Here is another “supercharged” profit center that you may have thought had gone away – duplicating regular audio cassettes and micro cassettes. Yes, people still use them by the millions each year, and you can make one to an unlimited number of copies for them. It’s a slam dunk profit center!
Home Movie Transfers:
This is one of those “pass through” profit centers that you will just love. You take the orders; we do the work; you make the money! From the 1910s to the early 1980s (before VHS hit), literally millions of home movies were shot. You'll make money on both the transfer and on VHS and DVD copies.
HVSI does all of the transfer work for you IN HOUSE, so you can depend on fast, competitively price, high quality service. We have our own state-of-the-art, digital transfer facility in Indianapolis, Indiana, fully staffed and ready to work for your new studio. Remember, there were literally millions of home movies shot from the 1920s on. The 50s and 60s were the heyday for home movies. They just never stop coming in: 8mm, Super 8 and 16mm. Whether it is one reel or a shoebox full, you take the orders and we do the work.
Video Tape Production:
A Pure Profit Center! Tape clients at your home studio or at their location – events, parties, equipment manufacturer's products and operations, training videos – the list is endless. Since you'll have an entire video production studio in your home, why not use it to produce your own profitable tapes! There is an incredible market out there for informational and instructional tapes just waiting to be taped. You control when and where you tape. We will teach you which projects are profitable which will just drain all of your resources.
Video Prints:
Make over 3,000% profit making pictures from video! It's fun and interesting work. Your clients and needs vary – extreme sports, weddings, security cameras, insurance investigations, police departments, and TV news broadcasts. Your customers want a picture of the people, places, and things that get caught on video. With your home video studio, you can capture it, freeze it, and print it. It’s easy to do and very profitable.
Format conversions:
It just seems like the major manufacturers just keep cooperating with our studio owners by coming out with new formats and camcorders virtually every year. ! Changing old formats into current formats makes a great market for us because we can transfer all of those old formats to whatever new format our customers want. A good example is converting old reel-to-reel audiotapes to compact disks (CDs). It’s very profitable, and, often, just another pass through business. Yes, it’s another of our “Supercharged Profit Centers!”
Savers of the Family Archives:
The recent natural (and, at times, "unnatural") disasters that have struck Florida and the Gulf Coast have reminded people that protecting their priceless possessions - photographs, films, videos, memorabilia - is critical. This new service - Savers of the Family Archives - stores everything digitally on disk or I-Pod - for easy viewing, for insurance proof, and even for off site for protection in a safety deposit box. When people think about disasters striking their homes, they often think about "what would I grab first before running out of the house?" The answer is almost always, "our photographs and prized possessions - memorabilia. Now, we have a service that protects these precious items for them.
Arts, Music, and Entertainment Scholarship:
HVSI studios can now create Arts, Music, and Entertainment Scholarship videos, similar to the Sports Scholarship videos they have been doing for years. These videos present highlights of a student's career in the various arts and music activities in school in order to help the student qualify for college scholarships and grants.
Just as coaches and athletic directors have welcomed the Sports Scholarship videos from student athletes, more and more band, choral, and orchestra directors are requesting them. It has become so competitive in the field of arts and entertainment these days that students simply have to find a way to get the attention of those who are in a position to help them fund their post-high school and even post-graduate studies. HVSI is now able to put together a short highlight video that captures key moments in the student's career in an entertaining and informative way. It's really a lot of fun for parents and students, and it has a powerful impact on the viewer. Sometimes it's the difference between getting and not getting an audition or scholarship money!
Language Translation:
Among the more intriguing new services HVSI is now able to offer is Language Translation, specifically for video. As we become more and more bilingual as a nation, the demand for "dual" video presentations, i.e., videos in both English and Spanish, for example, are becoming more prevalent. HVSI is able to "translate" a video production from English to Spanish or vice versa relatively fast and very affordably. In fact, they will be able to translate into virtually any common language in the near future.
Documentary Style Corporate Video:
Of particular interest to businesses is what Hanley calls his Documentary Style Corporate Video. Often, a business owner would like to have a corporate video, but the first step - writing a script - seems overwhelming. HVSI has
created a process that makes the seemingly difficult task of producing a documentary very simple. HVSI actually works backwards! After a brief fact-finding meeting with the client, HVSI shoots and edits video before doing the script and voice over (narration). It may seem odd, but it really works!"
Having produced a feature length movie and hundreds of corporate videos and commercials, Hanley should know. Furthermore, each production is "customized" so that it has a unique look and feel, something special for each individual business.
Snap Videos:
A novel idea, Snap Videos are short, corporate "music videos" for promoting a company's image to its customers. HVSI studio owners capture customers' photos and edit them to the musical beat. The effect is outstanding: we can produce an "MTV" feel by editing the photos together much faster - instead of the "normal" five or six seconds per photo, we speed up the process to one or two seconds per photo. The customer can have several variations of his or her photo collection for various purposes.
High Concept Videos:
High Concept Videos are, again, very short, very contemporary mini-productions involving a multi-screen, multi-layered video with information coming at the viewer from many different angles, all of the time. For example, we use multiple video in video effect; graphics, crawls, the works! Think about the "look" that most of the news networks are using during their broadcasts - with crawls, pictures in pictures, lots of graphics, a visual cornucopia.
This is one of our hottest Profit Centers. Virtually everyone has tapes they cherish, but the tapes are collecting dust in a closet somewhere, slowly deteriorating. Many family and business tapes from the 80s and early 90s are already in danger. Think about all of the business, churches, schools, and other organizations that have hundreds, if not thousands, of programs on videotape. This huge market offers you great profit potential. Transfer tapes to DVD and give new life to the your clients’ memories.
A FamilyTIME™ video makes your client the star! You’ll create a professionally edited program featuring the highlights your client chooses. Perhaps it’s a “Baby’s First Year” video, a “Sweet Sixteen” video, or even a “How We Spent Our Summer Vacation” video. You’ll edit and add appropriate music, titles, special effects, and more into a three- to five-minute video.
This is almost a business in itself! Usually starting with the junior year, coaches urge parents to put their student-athlete on videotape to send to colleges and universities for scholarship consideration. Even a partial scholarship is helpful. We’ve done Sports Scholarship videos for all of the major sports and even for some you might not imagine: basketball, football, soccer, baseball, hockey, volleyball, track, cross-county, swimming, ice-skating, skiing, softball, and lacrosse. The list is practically endless and even includes the performing arts. A student-athlete with a well-made video that chronicles the skills required to get to the next level will have a greater chance at winning a college scholarship, saving the family thousands of dollars. These are fun and profitable projects. These videos are in big demand and run from three hundred fifty dollars to thousands of dollars!
Become the Audio/Video Department of local law offices, investigators, police departments, and insurance companies. It seems as though security cameras are everywhere, and law enforcement officials need help with these tapes all of the time. Furthermore, they usually need multiple copies of the tapes, and they need them fast! Our studio owners have assisted in many cases. We specialize in accentuating audio, pulling video photos from tape, and adding light to dark video. With your ability to make copies fast, you’re in for a tremendous profit!
The proliferation of the computer and the Internet offers many opportunities for you to convert your customers’ videos into formats suitable for computer and Internet distribution. Video to JPEG, Quicktime, MPEG, Windows Media Player are just a few examples. With your equipment package, these conversions are easy and profitable! For example, one of our owners recently received $ 4,000.00 to convert eight hours of video to MPEG!
This profit center is huge. With your equipment package, your can offer what many businesses, schools, organizations, and artists need – duplication of their creations. These clients are distributing video programs and digital information on CD and DVD, and every day there are more and more opportunities for you to assist them. Start your duplication machines and let them make money for you while you complete other projects. This is another area that is almost always humming and is an extraordinary moneymaker! Consider this example: what if you ran just fifty (50) DVDs overnight at $ 14.95 each? That’s an excellent profit margin, isn’t it? And, yes, your machines work while you sleep! It should make you smile just thinking about it.
You’ll be amazed at how many clients will bring you damaged videos that contain their precious memories or important pieces of history. We will show you how to repair them, effectively bringing them back to life. Most clients will also want back up copies or DVD transfers of these tapes. When you tell them that you specialize in repairing tapes, they will be thrilled that you can save their priceless materials.
Remember, HVSI owners don’t shoot weddings or other similar events, but we do rent cameras and/or schedule crews for such activities. We provide a handy guide to assist customers in producing their own videos.
If you’re looking for a high profit, consistent income profit center, duplication is definitely it. Best of all, we'll show you how to supercharge this profit center, how to make, for example, $ 75.00 profit on one tape!
The emerging “Global Village” means money in your pocket as more and more Americans need to convert their videos into PAL, SECAM, or even NTSC formats. The global economy has created a number of scenarios that affect your business directly. Residents over here in America have Mom and Dad living back in Germany, for example. Or, Bill and Barb have traveled to the Vatican and want to share their tapes with friends all over Europe and the Far East. The fact is, most tapes from other countries won’t play here and ours won’t play over there. It is a seller’s market because it is hard to find companies like yours to convert these tape formats. You can do it, almost automatically, and do several other projects at the same time.