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Photo of a mother and daughter smiling while looking at a laptop screen
Photo of a mother and daughter smiling while looking at a laptop screen

Mainstay Memento [Sale]

$349.00‍ ‍$399.00

Our most popular option! Turn a scattered pile of old photos and phone videos into a breathtaking 3-minute cinematic experience, equal parts custom scrapbook and music video. Perfect for a highly emotional, unforgettable gift that honors your loved one or immortalizes special moments in a way they’ll want to watch again and again.

Includes:

  • 3-minute polished HD video file in .MP4 format, ready to watch, share, and post on all standard devices, websites, and apps

  • 1 round of revisions + polish pass

  • Unique Licensed music (so you can post with confidence)

  • Option to include personal video messages (up to 2 total minutes)

  • Want more? Extend it for $75 per additional minute beyond the first 3

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Photo of a couple watching their daughter's graduation on their living room TV
Photo of a couple watching their daughter's graduation on their living room TV

Mainstay Montage

$199.00

Don't let your favorite family vacations or annual highlights get lost on your camera roll. We’ll polish and pace your clips and photos into a beautiful, shareable 2-minute highlight reel set to music.

Includes:

  • 2-minute polished HD video file in .MP4 format so you can easily play it on any device and post it on any website or app (YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, etc.)

  • 1 round of light revisions

  • Unique licensed music (so you can post with confidence)

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All prices subject to MN sales tax

Photo of a senior couple on a hammock smiling and looking at a tablet
Photo of a senior couple on a hammock smiling and looking at a tablet

Mainstay Heirloom

$599.00

Made for once-in-a-lifetime events like weddings, graduations, retirements, and golden anniversaries; or for reverently memorializing a lifetime of special moments. 

We’ll pull out all the stops to help you plan and storyboard your video, then organize, enhance, and edit your photos, videos, and additional personal messages and narration. Features multiple rounds of review and edits to make sure it’s perfect. 

Includes:

  • 5-minute polished HD video file in .MP4 format, ready to watch, share, and post on all standard devices, websites, and apps

  • 2 rounds of revisions + final polish pass

  • Unique Licensed music (so you can post with confidence)

  • Pre-production storyboarding consultation to plan what photos, videos, messages, and narration to include

  • Option to include personal video messages

  • Option to include narration, whether recorded yourself or, if desired, using an AI-generated voice reading your script

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Your Greatest Memories, Polished to Perfection

The most beautiful moments of our lives shouldn’t be trapped in an app, buried in a closet, or scattered across chaotic group texts. Your family’s legacy deserves to be preserved with the same care and precision given to a masterclass film. At Mainstay Digital, we transform your collection of raw phone videos, forgotten clips, personal messages, and cherished photographs into a beautifully paced, emotionally resonant cinematic journey.

Step 1: Choose your video package in the store, and gather your favorite photos and video clips.
Step 2: Use our web portal to upload your photos and video clips.
Step 3: Watch the first cut of your video on any device. Leave notes directly in the timeline.
Step 4: Download your final video in high definition.

Mainstay Digital does not use AI-generated video, artwork, or music in your projects (unless you request it). Though we may use AI-based productivity tools where appropriate to pass on greater efficiency to you without sacrificing the quality of the final product (for instance, for paperwork, or to speed up transcription before we double-check it), we won’t cut corners, and every single edit or other meaningful decision involved in your project will be made by a real human being, every time.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Project timelines vary based on how they fit with other projects that have already been booked. You can typically expect any tier of project other than Heirloom to take about 5 business days after you’ve uploaded the raw video and photos you want to include, but turnaround could be as little as 2 days in some cases. Heirloom videos have variable timelines and pricing based on their scope and urgency, to be agreed upon with the client at the start of the project.

  • Emotion:

    As humans with decades of experience using video to share and enhance emotions, we know how to present human moments to surprise and delight viewers. An AI can copy a joke or an emotion it has seen before, but it doesn't understand why something is funny or moving the way a human does. Instead of dispensing a series of images to you by rote, we take the time to understand your photos and videos, find new and engaging ways to present them, and can identify and elevate the most important moments.

    Craft:

    Instead of stapling generic background music onto randomly-ordered images, we source soundtrack-grade music composed and performed by human musicians, then integrate it with your photos and videos to create a cohesive narrative package that takes you on a thematic emotional journey.

    Trustworthiness:

    LLMs are notorious for making mistakes that seem obvious to a human - such as giving a person in a photo too many fingers, or having everyone in video smile at exactly the same moment - and being unable to tell what it did wrong. Not only will we not make those uncanny valley mistakes or "hallucinations," but we also take responsibility for our work and will fix whatever human mistakes we do make.

  • We use Audiio, a music service for filmmakers, to source original, high-quality music (no free corporate stock music) that perfectly fits the vibe of your project. You’ll be prompted to let us know about your music preferences when you book the project, and we can always change the song during revisions if you aren’t thrilled with our selection.

    Each song is fully licensed, meaning you can share the video on any platform without fear of any legal issues, such as the infamous YouTube Copyright Strike.

  • Unfortunately, copyright law strictly prohibits us from including popular music by famous major recording artists in our projects, and the licensing process is both prohibitively time-consuming and prohibitively expensive. Even if you never shared your finished video publicly, Mainstay would still be exposed to severe legal risk if your project included music from these artists.

    That said, please let us know what songs you have in mind, or list some of your favorite artists or genres, when you book your project. We can track down a music clip that captures the same vibes and emotions you’re looking for, whether you’re aching for Coldplay’s wistful falsetto-and-acoustic sound, or itching to get down to one of the sick beats of Taylor Swift’s 1989 era.

  • Yes! It would be our honor to work with you to help you reverently and lovingly memorialize your loved one upon their passing.