Texas Archive of the Moving Image — Attraction in Austin

I had my paternal grandparent's 8mm home movies digitized through the round up, then I helped my Mom get the old home movies from her parent's done in a later roundup and I am now helping my Aunt get hers done in the current film roundup. The TAMI staff are very friendly, and helpful. They always return the film in better condition than they receive it and the digital files are great quality. I had my Maternal grandparent's set of the 8mm videos digitized previously by a company and after receiving the files from my Paternal grandparent's films, I told my Mom we had to have the others redone this way, because they would look so much better and they did come out much better. The only issue I have had is that YouTube will not allow me to upload the file type that TAMI sends, so I have to convert the files, which loose quality during conversion, but that is YouTube's fault. TAMI is awesome and they are saving films and giving them new life. TAMI is saving the history and culture of Texas and Texans by preserving our moving images through the film roundups....

I highly recommend TAMI's services for anyone needing help with transferring their home movies, whether they're shot on film or videotape. The staff treated my family's collection of 8mm videotapes with professionalism and care. It's comforting to know that TAMI is a non-profit org and interacting with their team felt more like a one-on-one tour of their archive, showing me how my home movies will be preserved where they'll be stored online. All of the original tapes were returned in perfect shape and the digital transfers, which were all stored on a USB drive, played wonderfully. It's a great feeling to be able to preserve and share precious family history, and to top it off you get to include your family's story alongside other famous Texans in their...

TAMI is an incredible organization and resource for Texans. After my father died the family was at a loss of what to do with boxes of old home movies. We nearly donated them or threw them out but was relieved to discover TAMI through asking around for a solution. They took special care and did an excellent job of digitizing all of my father's super 8 and 16 mm films. We discovered much footage that we hadn't seen before and reminisced about films we used to gather around to see on the old projector as children. Now we have these precious memories and visual histories to watch in perpetuity. To top it of all off it, all this work was done for free...