VideOccasions can make still photo prints from your VHS, S-VHS, 8mm and Hi-8, miniDV and DVCam video tapes, as well as from a DVD.

We use an Epson Stylus Photo R200 printer, which produces excellent 4 x 6 inch prints. Photos larger than 4x6 tend to be very grainy and are therefore not recommended. The printer software permits cropping of photos and some color and brightness adjustment.

If more elaborate modification of your photos is necessary, we suggest having the picture files burned to a CD so that you may work on them at home.

The security community makes frequent use of this service, making still pictures from surveillance tapes. Less exotic uses include making still photos from wedding, birthday and anniversary video tapes to add to scrapbooks and photo collections, or to use on protective boxes for presentation copies of your video projects.

We can also capture images from your digital still camera through our computer's USB port. Ask us about this service.

• Price: $4.50 per print.

In addition to photographic prints, VideOccasions can provide computer images in the .gif, .jpg and .bmp file formats. You can touch these up and print them in PhotoShop®, Paint Shop Pro® or one of the numerous other photo enhancing software programs.

We are able to make files from tapes in the VHS, S-VHS, 8mm and Hi-8, Digital8, MiniDV and DVCam formats. Most clients ask to have their picture files burned to a CD, but we can also print them if that is a medium that better serves your needs.

• Price: Files burned to CD $25.00 for the first half hour, $12.50 each 15 minutes following.