The UK's most affordable and flexible DVCPRO transfers.
A personal service by an engineer with 20 years of video experience. Transfers to DVD, computer and more.
Costs from just £20 per tape, extra copies £3.50 or less. Discounts for quantity. Lowest prices in the UK but the highest quality.
Panasonic introduced the DVCPRO format in 1995 and it became popular with Electronic News Gathering in particular. Never one to shy away from a format battle, Sony then introduced the DVCAM format which is very similar, and by and large the DVCAM format took most of semi-pro market, leaving DVCPRO as a fairly hard format to find someone to run tapes for. The DVCPRO format comes in several variants, and video99 supports the first and most popular variety sometimes known as DVCPRO25. There are DVCPRO50 (high performance standard definition), DVCPRO Progressive (not often seen today) and DVCPRO HD variants, which will only tend to be used when the tape is going to be edited in-house. Therefore it is only the DVCPRO-25 variant which people tend to have a need to transfer for viewing.
There are two popular sizes of tape for the DVCPRO format, Large which is the same size as a large DV or DVCAM tape, and Medium which is roughly the same size as a Video8/Hi8/Digital8 tape. We support both of these sizes. A much less popular size is DVCPRO-XL (Extra Large) and this is not something we can run. Tapes have a yellow lid and grey body, can be marked AJ-P12MP, AJ-P24MP, AJ-P33MP, AJ-P66LP, AJ-P9126LP, DP121 etc. and are usually Panasonic, Maxell or Fuji branded.
Two tape sizes are common, Large on the left and Medium on the right.
Basic Menu, £20 per tape of up to 1 hour, £25 over 1 hour. The menus are limited to just a title, but you get a chapter point every 5 minutes so it is easy to move around the DVD. Extra copies of these DVDs cost just £3.50 each and are recommended.
Deluxe Menu £25 per tape up to 1 hour, £30 1 hour to 1.5 hours. Nice menu icons showing what is on that part of the recording, and if you email me with titles I will put them on the DVD for you too. I place the chapter breaks at points of interest or new recordings. These menus look like professionally recorded DVD films. Extra copies are very cheap, just £2.50 each, and well worth taking.
DVD-ROM £25: Up to 20 minutes on one DVD-Rom in high quality DV-AVI video files. If you have a lot of tapes, DVCPRO to hard disk files start from £20 per hour. Note that due to limitations with some DVCPRO equipment, the DV data stream is not a pure digital copy from tape, but has to go through an analogue to digital step. Though very high quality, this may make the data stream less suitable for broadcast. Ask for clarification if required.
Options include transfer to MPEG2 files, DV AVI format files on hard disk for larger quantities of tapes (5 or more), copy to miniDV or even DVCAM. Just email me for details.
| PAL | NTSC | |
| YES | NO | |
Only the European PAL television system is supported for DVCPRO at this time.
We have a new and easy order page, just select what kind of tapes you have and supply your details.
If for any reason you get stuck filling out the form, just email me and I'll help you personally. It's a personal service I offer, not like some of the big video editing houses. I understand that in many cases you will not be able to tell how much material is on the original recordings.
If recorded on equipment from another country, see the Television systems explained.
Not everyone
needs their tapes returned once they have the DVDs, but if you do, please remember to include postage costs. For a single video tape in the UK, this is just
£1.50. For larger quantities, and tapes from outside the UK, I will let you know.
Ideally can you ensure you send the tapes in a package which is sufficiently large and robust for me to use to send back your original tapes. Usually I will send the DVDs to you ahead of returning your tapes, then when you've confirmed you are happy with the
DVDs, I will return your tapes. This way I can help you further if necessary - for example you can now see you want a different part of a tape transferred on its own or you want extra copies.
The DVCPRO format is new to video99 as of April 2010, and if you are my first customer of this format you will get a discount.
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