The service offered here is specifically the transfer from tape to digital file, with no post-processing.

It's intended to preserve your footage in a digital format so that you can make endless copies and watch it forever without having to worry about the tapes degrading further or getting chewed by a machine at one point.

This isn't a restoration service. If you need your footage edited or colour corrected, or the effects of any tape degradation removed etc, then services like that do exist, although they don't tend to be cheap. The footage you get back from me is absolutely suitable for such work though, and you can do it yourself if you know what you're doing. Basic editing in particular (e.g. cutting out unwanted footage, splitting up a long tape into smaller sections etc.) really isn't that difficult - it's just very time consuming.

Once the footage is captured I will trim it to remove any blank footage at the beginning and end, but other than that your footage will look like the original recordings, including any gaps.