

We offer free assessments - please contact us to discuss your project.įor an introduction to our assessment and treatment processes, please see our guide to "what happens to your video tape".ĭV VTRs are in some ways a rare transition between older analogue formats and a digital format used domestically and professionally. MiniDV / HDV video cassette recordings can vary both in duration and in the extent of physical tape degradation, so we always assess tapes before confirming the price of a transfer.

Files delivered on hard drive can be for any operating system MacOS, Windows or GNU/Linux and filesystems (HFS+, NTFS or EXT3). We can provide the appropriately-sized USB delivery media for your files, or use media supplied by you, or deliver your files online. Following International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives TC-06 guidelines in digitising to uncompressed or lossless formats, we also recognise that for some born-digital recordings like DV, DVCAM and HDV it can be more appropriate to capture and preserve the direct DV stream with its associated metadata and this is our preferred workflow with DV and HDV recordings. We offer a range of delivery formats for our video transfers. digital and audiovisual preservation – online resourcesĪt Greatbear, we transfer all variations of the DV born-digital video tape format, from MiniDV / HDV in PAL and NTSC.Digital Betacam / Betacam SX / MPEG IMX.digital tape recording system (DTRS / DA-88).DVD, CD, etc.) and could be purchased, we cannot perform the transfer (conversion). READ: If whatever recording submitted is currently available in a modern format (i.e. We charge per playing time because some VHS recordings can be up 6 hrs depending if client used SP Standard Recording or EP Extended Recording Prices are for transfers to digital only MPEG (Add + $10 for DVD with Menu up to 2 hrs). We require a deposit of $5.00 for each video tape conversion. Add $10 to Include 1 DVD Movie up to 2 hrs.

