Summit Video Services

01/27/2025

Thank you so much for the 5-Star review, Kelly!

01/25/2025

Downtown Lee's Summit’s “Shovel the Sidewalk Sale” is wrapping up but we've got some sweet deals online all day today until midnight that you don't want to miss!

Gift certificates are discounted 15% off all Saturday long (until midnight Central Time). For example, buy a $50 gift certificate and receive $50 in value but only pay $42.50 for it. Gift certificates are redeemable any time and never expire, so why not get one at a discount?

https://www.summitvideo.org/store/giftcards

01/24/2025

Join us tomorrow for the Downtown Lee's Summit “Shovel the Sidewalk Sale.” We don’t sell coffee but we sure make a mean cup of Joe! Come experience it for yourself! Stop by our studio for a free cup of coffee or espresso. We’re offering a special 15% off all new orders Saturday only in the office from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Can’t make it but still want the deal? Gift certificates will also be discounted at 15% off all day on our website at www.summitvideoservices.com.

Over 20 business in downtown are participating. Come celebrate Winter with us with blowout deals and winter-themed specials! See the link below for participating businesses and further details:

https://downtownls.org/event/shovel-the-sidewalk-sale-2025

01/22/2025

What is your most precious memory you would like to preserve? A photo of your grandparents on their wedding day? An iPhone video of your child’s first steps? A recording from your uncle while stationed in Vietnam?

We’d love to hear from you. Please share your comments below.

For more information, visit our website at www.summitvideoservices.com

01/17/2025

This sample of “Is My Love” is an original piece by Carol Comer, recorded in 1978 and digitized and restored today at Summit Video Services.

As a jazz singer, pianist, and composer, Carol Comer was a Kansas City musical icon. She worked with musicians such as Pat and Mike Metheny, Russ Long, and had her work recorded by legends Marilyn Maye, Matt Monro, and Sandler and Young. Comer was a journalist and musical educator. In 1977, she and fellow journalist and performer Diane Gregg challenged the underrepresentation of women in jazz and soon founded the Kansas City Women’s Jazz Festival (WJF).

Following Carol’s death in December of 2024, her daughter Kelly Morgan of Lee’s Summit brought in box full of old, dilapidated audio reels for us to transfer and digitally restore. Many of these reels were on their last playback as the layers of mylar tape and binder separated and fell apart and our machines were coated in small shavings of iron particles that once were imbedded in these recordings.

This old box contained a treasure trove of old studio recordings, rare b-sides, commercial jingles, and a legacy of work from one of Kansas City’s most popular and influential jazz singers and composers. Carol will be honored with a Celebration of Life service on February 2, 2025. We are honored that Kelly brought these recordings to us to be restored and revitalized for years to come.

01/08/2025

While schools are still closed for a snow day, we’re back in the office. Come by and say “hello!”

01/07/2025

We are closed for another snow day today, Tuesday, January 7th. Be safe and stay warm.

01/06/2025

We are closed for a snow day. Road and conditions are pretty bad out there today. Stay safe and wam!

12/15/2024

A view from our office today. Recording the annual holiday concert for Lee's Summit North High School, Bernard Campbell Middle School, and East Trails Middle School. Such a beautiful acoustic and lovely performance. We look forward to this event every year!

11/30/2024

Summit Video Services: Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday 15% Off Sale (including Online Gift Cards)! - https://mailchi.mp/summitvideo/20-off-all-october-long-10331575

11/01/2024

We just restored this panoramic beauty of Longview Farm (circa 1925) for the Lee's Summit History Museum. Founded by lumber baron, Robert A. Long, Longview Farm is a beautiful area in western Lee’s Summit. The farm and over 50 other structures were built on 1,780 acres. Construction started in 1913 and was completed in 1914, taking just 18 months. The result is what came to be known as "The World's Most Beautiful Farm."

This photograph showcases the Longview dairy barn (only a small portion of this structure still remains today). In the distance on the right is Loula Long’s famous Longview Show Horse Arena, the current site of Longview Farm Elementary School.

We scanned, restored, and printed this image for the museum as a 34” x 8” panorama on Red River Fine Art Paper. Such a beautiful piece of local history!

10/31/2024

Happy Halloween! Be safe out there!

10/22/2024

October’s supermoon, also known as the “Hunter Moon,” is the largest and brightest full moon of 2024.

Stationed in Lamoni, Iowa that day for some video production with Graceland University, the clear evening skies seemed perfect for a supermoon shot along with the tower at GU’s Higdon Administration Building.

Using PhotoPills, I developed a plan to execute my vision of this image. Once at the shooting spot, it was just time to pray and wait for the moon to peak over the horizon and get into position. I love it when a plan comes together!

Check out my reel for a full behind-the-scenes video of this shot.

10/11/2024

Check out our six-minute short episode on our audio transfer services. It’s worth a watch and you might recognize a few people!

Please like and share with others that may still have their memories trapped on legacy media (film, videotape, audio recordings, photos/slides/negatives, etc.). We’d love the opportunity to help them.

Reel Talk (Episode 4): Audio Transfer

10/08/2024

We spent some time this morning with Chris Ary producing some new branding videos for Major Saver. Exciting things are on the horizon!

10/07/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kof8VpwfMuI&t=2649s

Summit Video Services owner, Chad Godfrey, was special guest on the Link 2 Lee's Summit Town Hall podcast this week. Check out his interview with Nick Parker talking about our 20 years in business anniversary; our Reel Talk video series; and sharing stories of legacy media, history, and storytelling.

Special thanks to Nick for this opportunity!

Local business owner and filmmaker Chad Godfrey drops by The Vault to talk about his downtown business' upcoming anniversary and his love storytelling and pr...

10/01/2024

Every October we take time to appreciate our loyal customers and friends. We invite you to celebrate with us by taking 20% off any of our services this month. The opportunity to save is limitless, but hurry, this offer ends October 31st!