VIDEO & PHOTO RESTORATION

Specialist recovery for damaged tapes and professional digital restoration of old family memories.

VHS tape physical splicing and casing repair

VHS & Tape Splicing & Repair

Accidents happen. Tapes get tangled in old players, snap, or the plastic shells crack. Our lab provides expert manual repair services for VHS, VHS-C, 8mm, Hi8, and MiniDV tapes. We splice snapped magnetic tapes, repair internal mechanism faults, and swap damaged reels into brand new housings. Once repaired, we immediately capture them to digital formats to ensure the contents are preserved forever.

Sticky-shed syndrome tape baking and mold decontamination

Mould Cleaning & Tape Baking

Magnetic tapes stored in damp New Zealand conditions frequently develop active mould spores or suffer from "Sticky-Shed Syndrome" (where the tape binder absorbs moisture and becomes sticky). Playing these tapes will permanently destroy them and ruin playback equipment. We use specialized decontamination chambers and custom laboratory tape baking ovens to temporarily restore the tape's structure, allowing for a safe, high-quality digital transfer.

Digital photo restoration of torn and faded prints

Physical Photo Restoration

Do you have precious old photographs that are torn, water-damaged, faded, or covered in pen marks? Our graphic retouchers manually restore digital copies of your photographs. We remove cracks, scratches, and stains, restore faded colors, adjust contrast, and can even reconstruct missing sections of prints. We also offer professional black-and-white colorization to bring your vintage memories to life.

Advanced video resolution upscaling and progressive deinterlacing

Advanced Video Enhancement & Upscaling

Standard definition interlaced VHS and 8mm camcorder video footage often looks blocky, jagged, or blurry on modern high-resolution Smart TVs. Utilizing industry-leading Topaz Labs digital reconstruction engines, we apply advanced progressive deinterlacing (Dione processing models) to eliminate interlaced scan-line comb artifacts. Our temporal frame-stabilization and noise-reduction models filter out analog magnetic tape hiss while sharpening focus, recovering natural textures (such as clothing and facial features), and converting low-frame-rate videos to fluid 50fps/60fps progressive files for clean, smooth playback.

Preserving Heirloom Media Locally

Unlike major retail chains that ship your irreplaceable original family tapes and photographs to bulk offshore facilities, all of our restoration processes are handled locally by our expert team in Auckland. This eliminates transit risks and guarantees absolute safety, personal care, and privacy for your treasured family archives.

Restoration Services

Magnetic tape mold spore extraction
Snapped tape physical splicing & repair
Tape shell and casing transplants
Sticky-Shed tape dehydration baking
Photo tear, scratch, and mold spot removal
Advanced frame rate smoothing & HD upscaling

Do you have damaged or mouldy media that you thought was lost forever? Before you throw it away, let our restoration experts review it. In most cases, we can fully clean and retrieve the contents successfully.