Transfers
Our standards, equipment and experience will provide the highest quality conversion of your tape’s footage.
We keep our professional equipment in excellent working order with regular maintenance and cleaning and we know how to ensure the highest quality results for footage created with the technology available in the 70's, 80's, 90's and 00's. The change from standard definition CRT technology to today’s HD televisions and screens demands careful attention to detail during the capture and conversion process; in addition to making sure that your tape is in proper mechanical working order we take great care in capturing the best-possible quality signal from your tape so we can create a copy of the source material that meets our standards and your expectations.
- DVD Transfers
Our DVD transfer service uses the DVD-Video format without copyright protection; you will be able to use your disc in a DVD player or computer, and with the proper software you will be able to "rip" the footage from the disc and store or edit it on a computer's hard drive. We are proud to use Taiyo Yuden DVDs, widely regarded as the best available disc with the longest lifespan.
- Direct, high-quality transfer of your footage to DVD-Video
- Complete privacy - your footage will not be viewed by us
- $20.95 per tape with a 20% discount if the tape has been repaired by us ($16.76 with discount)
- Additional copies $8.50 each
- Available for: VHS, S-VHS, Video8, Hi8, VHS-C, Digital8 and miniDV
- Data File Conversions
Once your footage has been captured we can convert it to any format (.mp4, MPEG-2, .mov, etc.) as a data file. The best-possible conversion will be made so that you have the highest quality footage- after you receive the data file you will be able to edit, compress, upload to the cloud, and store it however you'd like.
In order to maintain our standards the best delivery method is USB thumb drive or external hard drive so that the data does not need to be compressed with reduced quality; you can send a device with your order or we can provide an appropriately-sized drive for your data and add the cost to your invoice.
- Footage conversion to the format that works best for you
- Highest quality transfer is standard
- Complete privacy - your footage will not be viewed by us
- $23.95 per tape with a 20% discount if the tape has been repaired by us ($19.16 with discount)
- Available for: VHS, S-VHS, Video8, Hi8, VHS-C, Digital8 and miniDV
- Backup Bundle
DVDs and data file conversions have overlapping use cases- discs are easy to pop into a DVD player and data files offer the simplest starting point if you intend to edit your footage or share it online.
No matter what your primary usage for your footage, it's always a good idea to have different backups of it across a variety of storage media. A DVD can be scratched and a thumb drive can be lost so we strongly recommend following the rule of three: if the footage is irreplacable, store it in at least three different ways so that if something happens to one of the formats you still have two others available.
Ordering the Backup Bundle will provide you with both a DVD transfer and a data file conversion of your tape's footage; counting the original tape itself and you've reached three different storage formats and you can also copy over the data file to computer's hard drive or a cloud storage account for a fourth backup version.
- Direct, high-quality transfer of your footage to DVD-Video
- Footage conversion to the format that works best for you
- Highest quality transfer is standard
- Complete privacy - your footage will not be viewed by us
- 5% Off - $42.65 per tape with an additional 20% discount if the tape has been repaired by us ($34.12 with total discounts)
- Available for: VHS, S-VHS, Video8, Hi8, VHS-C, Digital8 and miniDV