What you actually get

A finished film. Not a clip you still have to do something with.

Most ways of doing this hand back one animated shot and leave the rest to you — the restoring, the colouring, the ordering, the music, the editing. This does the whole job and emails you the result.

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An old family album being taken down from a shelf

The difference, line by line

Five things that change when the whole process is built as one thing instead of assembled from parts.

Usually

With MakeTribute

A single animated clip. One photo, a few seconds of movement — and then it is your job to turn that into something worth watching.

A finished film. Every photograph animated, edited together with transitions, sound effects in the right places, a dedication card at the front and a soundtrack throughout. Nothing left to assemble.

Several different tools. One to restore, another to colourise, another to upscale, another to animate, another to edit — each with its own account, its own price and its own export.

One place, one process. Restoration, colour, HD enhancement, animation, editing, sound and music happen in a single pass. You upload photographs and receive a film.

Time spent choosing. Which tool, which model, which settings, and then checking whether the result came out usable — before any of the actual work starts.

The choices are already made. The advanced models are installed, tuned and quality-checked automatically at each stage. There is nothing to research and nothing to configure.

Days of waiting. Custom video work is typically quoted at 48 hours, and often a week — with a brief, a revision round and a delivery date.

30 to 90 minutes. No brief, no quote, no waiting on a person. The finished film arrives in your email with a download link, at any hour of the day or night.

A price you find out later, often four or five times higher — and a package that decides for you how long the video will be.

$25.00 to $60.00, priced per photograph. You see the total before you pay. You choose how many photographs, so you choose both the price and the length. Same quality either way.

Every stage was thought about separately

The reason it comes out finished is that nothing in the pipeline is an afterthought.

Photos are checked before anything else

Unsuitable images are identified and filtered out at the start, so nothing is wasted animating a photograph that was never going to work.

Framing is corrected for you

Portraits and odd crops are aligned and extended to fit the film, so a vertical phone photo and a wide old print sit together without black bars.

Order, automatic or yours

Photographs are arranged in chronological order automatically, or you drag them into exactly the order you want the story told.

Repair, colour and HD

Scratches, creases and fading are repaired, black-and-white images are coloured, and every photograph is sharpened before it is animated — not after.

Music, ours or yours

Choose a track from the library, or upload the song that actually means something. The film is cut to it either way.

A dedication card you design

Open the film with a few words in your own wording — with control over the text size and the background image behind it.

Photographing an open family album with a phone

All you do is choose the photographs.

That is genuinely the whole job. Take them out of the album, photograph the prints with your phone if they were never digital, and put them in the order you want. Everything after that — the repairing, the colouring, the sharpening, the movement, the cuts, the sound, the music — happens without you.

See what finished actually looks like.

Upload your photographs and watch the whole thing come back in under ninety minutes.

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