Professional Video Conversions from Video
VHS, SVHS, VHSC, MiniDV, DV Cam, Video8, Hi8, Digital8, Beta, Betamax and Umatic to DVD.
We convert most formats of Video and Tape to DVD.
There's Video to DVD transfers and there's Video to DVD conversions, so Please read the Important information below the price list to find out what you're really getting for your money and the pitfalls to be aware of.
As our Video to DVD conversion and transfer process produces very high quality, we can only fit a maximum of 2 hours of video onto a DVD. If your video is longer than 2 hours, it will be split onto 2 DVD's and will cost an extra $20.00.
Prices are the same for all video formats including:
VHS, SVHS, VHSC, MiniDV, DV Cam, Video8, Hi8, Digital8, Beta, Betamax and Umatic.
Video to DVD Price List
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Formats
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Description
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Price
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VHS to DVD
VHSC to DVD
SVHS to DVD
Umatic to DVD
Beta to DVD
Betamax to DVD
Betacord to DVD
Video8 to DVD
Hi8 to DVD
Digital8 to DVD
MiniDV to DVD
dvCam to DVD
EX SxS Pro Cards
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Prices include high quality conversion and transfer using our Professional Studio Equipment, Dolby digital sound and high quality two pass variable bit-rate encoding onto a DVD.
Premium option includes all the above, plus digital enhancing to remove white noise, editing to remove blank spaces and jittery edges plus chapters every 10 minutes for your convenience.
Your DVD is returned to you in a DVD case with a printed insert including Titles and Description.
We can make extra copies of your DVD for only $10.00 each. Discounts are available for more than 5 copies.
DIY Editing:
If you want to edit the footage yourself, we can convert your digitised footage to a compatable file that you can edit on your computer. We generally provide AVI files for a PC (Movie Maker) and MOV files for a MAC (iMovie), but we can be output to many different formats. Native DV files files are huge and we can only fit approx 20minutes of raw high quality footage onto a DVD as an editable data file (approx 4.3GB per 20 minutes per DVD. Conversion to DIY files is charged at an extra $30.00 per hour (ie $10.00 per 20 minutes). If required, files can be supplied on DVD or External Hard Drive. Contact us for prices.
Please contact us to discuss your requirements
and quantity discounts.
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Standard Transfer
$45.00
(per Tape)
Straight copy of your original tape using all our high end gear and processes, but no editing or enhancements.
Premium Transfer
$65.00
(per 90 mins)
Extras include:
Digital Enhancing wherever possible and editing blank spots and jittery edges. We also add chapters every 10 minutes so you can skip forward or backwards and replay chapters.
We convert your DVD to display at both 4:3 and 16:9 widescreen.
Please let us know if you want your DVD to remain at 4:3 standard screen.
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We also repair damaged damaged and broken tapes.
and clean mildew and fungus infection on tapes.
Please contact us for a quote.
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Important Information about Transfers.
We are often asked why we charge $65 to convert a Video to DVD while others on the Internet do it for $40 and less. As I said before, there are video to DVD conversions and there are video transfers and basically you get what you pay for. As a consequence, we have recently introduced two options for our Video to DVD transfers, Standard and Premium. Both use our high end Studio equipment, but the Standard option doesn't include all our usual monitoring, digital enhancing, editing and cleaning up. A normal 90 minute Video to DVD transfer takes us over 2.5 hours just to digitise, convert and transcode.
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Without being too technical and long winded, here's what we do:
Firstly, we don't use old video cameras to transfer your tapes, we only use professional studio quality players. Most of the transfers we do are analogue and firstly need converting to a digital format. We transcode the analogue footage through a professional LTBC (Line Time Base Corrector) which reduces digital noise and the snowy effects of analogue video. We monitor the process with a vectorscope and waveform monitor and adjust the brightness, contrast, saturation, hue and sharpness. The transcoding process outputs a pure, stabilised digital signal with locked in audio/visual sync. This important step cannot be done by many businesses as they don't have the high end professional equipment.
The enhanced and stabilised digital file is then captured into our professional edit suite (Edius Pro 5) through a high end IEEE1394 processing card to ensure a true enhanced DV format. We then edit out the blank spots, add Titles if necessary, add chapters and then output high quality, two pass variable bit-rate encoding onto a DVD. The Titles are printed directly onto the DVD and it is assembled into a DVD case with a printed insert. The resulting DVD is generally a better quality picture than your original video.
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Before you send your videos anywhere else. you must ensure your Video tapes are not being recorded directly to DVD without transcoding or going through the all important digital conversion process, which is just not acceptable nowadays, but as I say, you get what you pay for. I'm sure you'll agree that your precious memories are worth paying that little bit more for.
Another Important Thing To Consider.
Most people are under the misunderstanding that DVD's last forever. It's true they don't wear out and can be played over and over without wearing out. But, recent tests by PC Magazine and admissions by many industry experts and manufacturers show that many DVD's can fail within a few years. We do our bit by only using the best professional quality certified discs. For DVD's to last, it is imperative that they they are stored in a cool, dark, dry place at normal room temperature and away from any magnetic sources such as speakers or the TV etc.
Because of this, Manufacturer's Warranties are worth nothing. It sounds good, but in reality, it's worth nothing because if and when the disc fails, they'll replace the disc, but what about your'e precious memories or data, nothing can replace that !
Your Best Option to Preserve Those Treasured Memories.
Accepting the limitations of reality and looking for something more dependable, we have a few options available to you:
Always order a backup DVD to store away and never use, which you can get copied at any time in the future should your disc fail, you loose it or the relatives pinch it.
We have a few suggestions for you to choose from to preserve your Video to DVD conversion:
1. A backup disc using Taiyo Yuden (recognised as the world's best duplication DVD) for an extra $3 per disc per copy.
2. The ulimate Premium Archival 24 Carat Gold reflective layer disc (rated at over 100 years), for an extra $5 per disc per copy.
3. Have your AVI or MOV native DV files created and supplied on either Disc or an external hard drive for $30.00 per 60 minutes. These are data files that you can copy onto your computer and edit with Movie Maker (PC-Windows) or iMovie (for MAC's). This has the added advantage that's it's still in it's raw high quality native DV format and hasn't been encoded and compressed.
4. We can supply files on an external hard drive.
Please phone or contact us to discuss converting your Treasured Memories.
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