The UK's most affordable and flexible video to DVD transfer service.
Now you can enjoy your video recordings again, whatever kind of tape they are on, even if you no longer have anything to play them on. All kinds of video cassette and camcorder tapes can be copied to DVD at prices which make it well worth leaving it to an expert.
Not only do I offer a cheap video to DVD transfer service, it's a personal and helpful service with the highest possible quality and attention to detail as standard. I'm happy to help when you don't know which tape an important recording is on, or you have other special requests. Bulk discounts are available if you have 10 tapes or more, just ask.
Click below on the tape format you have, read a little about the video tapes and see the prices for transferring to DVD. If you you're not sure what your tape is, scroll down this page until you see it, or just ask for help. I have possibly the largest selection of video cassette formats available in the UK.
Questions and Answers (FAQ) includes help on how to copy miniDV to DVD.
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Be careful who you trust your precious memories to. I am a qualified electronic engineer with 20 years of video editing and servicing experience. I've been transferring video to DVD since the very start of DVD recording equipment, and I put that special care and attention into my work which shows. Yet my prices are as low as the cheapest on the Internet. I also offer more tape formats than almost any other company, in some cases at a third of the cost of the competition. I can also do special services such as taking stills from a video, transferring confidential or private video material, DVD-Rom video files, repairing damaged tapes and more, just ask. I also offer audio transfers to CD from DAT, cassette, reel to reel, minidisc and more.
Example price: Betamax video including Hifi stereo sound of 2:30 hours, copied to DVD for £12. An extra copy for £3.50. If you can find anyone advertising a lower price, do tell me!
A typical
Beta (Betamax) tape
You may have seen my Beta video pages already, you can see that video99.co.uk is a Betamax specialist. The world's first camcorders were of the Beta format, so there are a wealth of precious memories on Beta tapes. For some six years now, since the earliest DVD recording equipment was available, I've been making people happy by carrying out the highest quality Betamax to DVD transfers. Video99.co.uk has a wealth of expertise in Betamax to DVD transfers and has the very best equipment.
I can transfer all normal domestic Beta (Betamax) tapes to DVD, with the best possible picture quality. If your Beta tapes may be recorded with HiFi stereo BetaHiFi sound, let me know and I'll be able to use this to get brilliant sound quality too. As well as UK recorded tapes, I can do NTSC and SECAM television system transfers for Beta tapes recorded on equipment from anywhere in the world.
You can chose between:
Basic Menu, £12: Up to 2:30 hours on one DVD, with top quality pictures and sound. 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 £18: Up to 1:30 hours on one DVD, with top quality pictures and sound. 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 £15: Up to 1:30 hours on one DVD-Rom in top quality MPEG2 video files. If you have a lot of tapes, Betamax to computer hard disk files start from just £6.67 per hour.
| PAL | NTSC | SECAM |
| YES | YES | YES |
Read more about Betamax
to DVD transfers here.
VHS tapes are familiar to us all but are starting to look very dated today. Furthermore the tapes degrade with age, and if your precious recordings are left on VHS beyond around 20 years, there is a real risk that the quality will suffer. In extreme cases, the recordings may be lost forever. Also VHS is now an obsolescent technology for which players will not be commonly available for much longer. Time to move your important recordings to DVD!
A few full sized VHS camcorders were sold for a short time, but most VHS camcorders were of the VHS-C (Compact) variety. The format never really caught on, but in the late 1980's to early 1990's, JVC and Panasonic marketed VHSC camcorders. A handful of other brands used it for a short time too. The thing people remember about the VHS-C format is that you could play the tapes in a VHS video recorder using an adaptor cassette.
VHS-C
tapes could be played back on a VHS video recorder with an adaptor.
S-VHS, or Super-VHS is a higher quality version of VHS using tapes of the same size. Several camcorders of this type were sold, and often they gave very good results. Smaller camcorders could use the S-VHS-C (or Super-VHS-C) type of tape, though very few of these were sold. We can run all these variants of VHS including tapes recorded on equipment from anywhere in the world.
Basic Menu, £12: Up to 2:30 hours on one DVD, though I can extend this a little if necessary, with top quality pictures and sound. 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 £18: Up to 1:30 hours on one DVD, with top quality pictures and sound. 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 £15: Up to 1:30 hours on one DVD-Rom in top quality MPEG2 video files. If you have a lot of tapes, VHS to computer hard disk files start from just £6.67 per hour.
If you have a recording made on equipment from USA or another country which uses a different television system, I can do these too at no extra cost, just let me know.
| PAL | NTSC | SECAM |
| YES | YES | YES |
Read more about VHS
and SVHS to DVD transfers here.
The first
Philips 2000 video recorder sold in the UK.
Because the tape can be recorded on both sides, it generally takes two DVDs to record all of the material from a V2000 tape, occasionally more. I offer just the one service for Video2000 tapes, with basic menus, and recording up to 2:30 hours on one DVD. Priced at £15 per DVD, with extra copies (highly recommended) at just £3.50 each. Also available, V2000 to computer hard disk.
|
Tape type |
Running times (maximum) |
|
V2000
VCC480 / VCC360 / VCC240 / VCC120 |
Each side is half the amount of minutes, eg. VCC240 =
2*120 minutes. |
| PAL | SECAM | |
| YES | NO | |
Read more about V2000
to DVD transfers here.
Video 8 and the higher performance version Hi8, were much the most popular type of camcorder sold right the way through the 1990's and are still sold today. Picture and sound quality is very good, and at best can be outstanding. Since the 8mm tape is completely different to VHS, no Video8 or Hi8 to VHS adaptor could ever exist, we need to play these tapes on the appropriate equipment.
You have come to the right place for your Video8 and Hi8 to DVD transfers, video99 has simply the best equipment. I can transfer your camcorder tapes to DVD with brilliant pictures and sound, using semi-professional Hi8 edit equipment costing well over £1000. I can also deal with PCM digital audio recording tracks (most people can't do this). What all this means is that the results will be much better than you can get by just playing the tape in a camcorder. I've had cases of customers coming to me after other video transfer companies were unable to handle their recordings but video99.co.uk won't let you down.
In the last few years a new variant of 8mm video recording has arrived, called Digital8. Camcorders of this type use standard Hi8 video cassettes, or Digital8 cassettes which are essentially the same, to record digital signals. The quality is excellent and with suitable equipment, it is possible to transfer these recordings to DVD in a completely digital way, retaining outstanding performance.
You can't tell by looking at an 8mm video cassette whether it has an analogue Video8 / Hi8 recording on it, or a Digital8 recording. Since I can transfer all of Video8, Hi8 and Digital8, there will be no problems with any of them. Some transfer outfits will get caught out by Digital8 recordings as they cannot run them. Furthermore I can handle recordings made on equipment from around the world, at no extra expense.
Basic Menu, £12: Up to 2:30 hours on one DVD, but most camcorder tapes are only 60-90 minutes which fits nicely. 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 £18: Up to 1:30 hours on one DVD, so camcorder tapes usually fit in one go. 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 £15: Up to 1:30 hours on one DVD-Rom in top quality MPEG2 video files. If you have a lot of tapes, Digital8 to hard disk files start from just £6.67 per hour and you can select MPEG2 or AVI file formats.
|
Tape type |
Running times (maximum) |
|
Video 8 or Hi8 MP90, ME90 |
90 minutes SP or 180 minutes LP |
|
Video 8 or Hi8 MP120, ME120 |
2 hours SP or 4 hours LP |
| Digital8 on MP90 tape | 60 minutes SP or 90 minutes LP |
| PAL | NTSC | |
| YES | YES | |
Read more about Video8/Hi8/Digital8
to DVD transfers here.
Most small camcorders sold since around year 2000 have used the miniDV digital video tape format. These can produce outstanding results, far too good to be wasted by copying onto VHS. Much better that the recordings are transferred to DVD which retain the quality, are easy to jump around from one scene to another, and last much better than any video tape. Since miniDV tape is completely different to VHS, no miniDV to VHS adaptor could ever exist, we need to play these tapes on the appropriate equipment. You have come to the right place for miniDV to DVD transfers, video99 has the experience to get the best possible results.
I usually transfer miniDV recordings using a fully digital process which means that there is absolutely no loss of picture or sound quality in the transfer to DVD. However, if you wish the time and date indications to appear on the finished DVD (either permanently or few a few seconds at the start, as you wish), I can do this by making a top quality analogue transfer to DVD for you. The results are still outstanding, because I use the high quality S-Video connection method throughout my equipment.
Modern miniDV camcorders can produce outstanding results.
Both Standard Play and Long Play recordings can be copied to DVD, though I would always recommend using Standard Play for maximum quality and to be sure the tapes will play on any camcorder. There is a larger variant of this format called DV, which I can also take (though not in Long Play), and I also now run the professional DVCAM format too.
Basic Menu, £12: Up to 2:30 hours on one DVD, but most camcorder tapes are only 60-90 minutes which fits nicely. 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 £18: Up to 1:30 hours on one DVD, so camcorder tapes usually fit in one go. 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 £15: Up to 1:30 hours on one DVD-Rom in top quality MPEG2 video files. If you have a lot of tapes, miniDV to hard disk files start from just £6.67 per hour and you can select MPEG2 or AVI file formats.
| PAL | NTSC | |
| YES | YES | |
Read more about miniDV
and DVCAM transfers here.
The smallest video ever invented is the microMV from Sony. Micro MV is capable of very good results despite its diminutive size. However it has not proven to be very popular and getting tapes transferred to DVD can be a challenge. MicroMV to DVD transfers are now available here of course, with excellent quality.
MicroMV camcorders use the smallest video tapes in the world and can give very
good results.
Basic Menu, £12 per tape: 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 £18 per tape: 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 £15: Up to 1:30 hours on one DVD-Rom in top quality MPEG2 video files. If you have a lot of tapes, microMV to hard disk files start from just £6.67 per hour.
| PAL | NTSC | |
| YES | YES | |
Read more about
microMV transfers here.
Used in television studios throughout the world, Betacam SP is a very popular professional video format. There are two tapes sizes, the smaller ones are very similar to domestic Beta (Betamax) tapes to look at, but Betacam recordings are absolutely incompatible with domestic Beta video players. My players will handle both the smaller and larger sized Betacam cassettes and also can play both the linear and FM audio tracks. I can also take both the early Betacam Oxide as well as the more common BetacamSP tapes.
I've done BetacamSP transfers for former BBC staff who have been delighted with the quality.
Professional Betacam SP tapes
(large size on left and small size on the right of this picture).
Basic Menu, £17: 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 £22: 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 £20: Up to 1:30 hours on one DVD-Rom in top quality MPEG2 video files. If you have a lot of tapes, Betacam to hard disk files start from just £10 per hour.
For Betacam to miniDV, Betacam to DVCAM, Betacam to hard disk options, just ask.
| PAL | NTSC | |
| YES | NO *** | |
Please note that I cannot handle Digital Betacam / Digi-Betacam, or Betacam SX recordings, nor recordings which are not in the PAL television system. *** NTSC BetacamSP may now be available, I have a player but no tape to test it with. If you have an NTSC BetacamSP (small size only) tape, let me know. If it works as it should, then you can have that transferred to DVD at no charge. May 2008.
Read more about Betacam
transfers here.
U-matic tapes are an old semi-professional and studio format which has remained in use for decades. It has been extensively used in the advertising industry and there are vast archives of material on these tapes. Early machines were simply U-matic, often known as U-matic lo-band. Later an enhanced U-matic hi-band was developed, and then the ultimate U-matic SP. There are two tape sizes, and my equipment can take both. I've carried out a several Umatic transfers recently and people have been very impressed with the quality of the results.
Large Umatic tapes (left) and small
ones (on the right) are both covered.
Tape transfers for any of the Umatic formats are £17 per tape, making me one of the cheapest transfer services for these tapes. Furthermore, note that most transfer companies cannot take all of the High Band or SP variants and international TV systems and so may well let you down. We are probably the only transfer service in the world who support every kind of Umatic recording. NTSC recordings cost £5 extra due to the extra setup time, but it's a small price to pay for the only known fully capable Umatic NTSC transfers in the UK.
Basic Menu, £17: 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 £22: 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 £20: Up to 1:30 hours on one DVD-Rom in top quality MPEG2 video files. If you have a lot of tapes, Umatic to hard disk files start from just £10 per hour.
For more complex assemble editing of many short items, email me and I'll work out a price for you. You can also request Umatic to miniDV or Umatic to DVCAM.
| PAL | NTSC | SECAM |
| YES | YES | YES |
Read more about Umatic
transfers here.
The first really successful video cassettes were of the VCR type, way back in 1972, and the similar VCR-LP format was in use until the early 1980's. Often these were known by the video recorder model numbers N1500 or N1700. A further development known as SVR, was marketed for a very short time by ITT and Grundig in 1979, and I now even cover this rare format.
Often you can't tell by looking at a tape, which of the three variants it is. You have come to the right place for these transfers, www.video99.co.uk is almost certainly the only transfer service in the world capable of handling all three variants.
Early Philips
VCR N1500 and VCR-LP N1700 tapes can be copied to DVD.
These are large square cassettes. N1500 tapes run for up to one hour and N1700 tapes run for up to three hours, and SVR up to 5 hours, but no recording will play in machines intended for the another. Tape markings include VC15, VC30, VC60, LVC120 and LVC180.
I offer the one service for VCR (N1500) and VCR-LP (N1700) tapes, with basic menus. Priced at £35 per tape, with extra copies (highly recommended) at just £3.50 each. Note that N1500 or N1700 tapes which have been badly stored are likely to be very difficult, occasionally impossible, to recover.
| PAL | ||
| YES | ||
Read more about VCR
to DVD transfers here.Have a DVD-Ram disk that you can't play? Or a rewritable DVD which you can't seem to play on some DVD players, perhaps one recorded in DVD-VR mode? Or a DVD recorded somewhere which you need duplicating? A miniature 3" DVD which you would like copied to a normal 5" sized one? A DVD-RW recorded in VR mode that you can't play? I can do all of these, just ask. I may be able to assist with NTSC to PAL DVD transfers too, so ask if you require this.
A DVD-Ram disk has odd looking patterns underneath, and may come in a special "caddy" box. I can do DVD-Ram to DVD-Video transfers for you at low prices.
Contact me with your requirements for any DVD to DVD transfers so I can give you a quote. Prices start from £2.50 per DVD, or even less in volume.
What I can't do is "finalise" a DVD recorded such as on a camcorder, to make it viewable. You will need to finalise it using the same make and preferably same model of DVD camcorder which made the recording.
I will not get involved in blatant copyright infringement of course.
| PAL | NTSC | |
| YES | YES | |
I do not handle HDV digital camcorder tapes, but the normal domestic miniDV format is no problem of course and full sized DV and DVCAM are also now available. I don't do cine film transfers, but can recommend Chris at Save Those Memories who do. I do not cover the exceptionally rare Funai/Technicolor CVC format, which were never sold in significant quantities in the UK. I do not run open-reel video tapes, though I do reel-reel audio.
I can transfer most kinds of videocassette types from anywhere in the world.
I don't much care what is on the tapes I copy (personal, private and confidential material is handled discreetly), and I leave you do deal with copyright issues around transferring TV programmes. However I will not get involved in blatant copyright violation (for example duplication pirating), and clearly illegal recordings would not be tolerated.
I am now offering audio transfers too (such as cassette to CD), presently including:
Read more about Audio
transfers here. Use the easy order page, just select what kind of tapes you have and supply your
details.If you don't know what this means, then you probably don't need it! Some people like to use their own computer and software to edit up DVDs for themselves, perhaps using Avid DVD by Sonic or Movie Factory by Ulead or Pinnacle Studio for example. So I also offer the service of transferring most video formats to DVD-Rom as high quality MPEG2 files. Prices start from £15 per 90 minutes for VHS, Beta and Hi8 for example.
Very popular are transfers of video to DV-AVI files on hard disk. These hard disk transfers are suitable for both PC and Apple iMac video editing and cost just £7 - £8 per hour for 10 hours or more (£10 per hour for short jobs). All video formats are now available with this option. You can provide the hard disk, or you can order one from a supplier such as DABS or SVP and have it shipped directly to me. Ask about this, because I have a discounted shipping arrangement with SVP for supply of external hard disks. Just email me for this option if you are interested, it's proving very popular and is highly economical for larger jobs.
Sometimes I am asked to copy video tapes to miniDV, so that the tape can be played into a computer for further editing. The option above of copying to DVD-Rom or hard disk is a better way to do it. However if you really want recordings copied onto miniDV, I can do this too! Just email me for this option if you are interested. Other options include copying to DVCAM, VHS, S-VHS or other tape formats.
A typical selection of messages I've had from customers of my video tape to DVD transfer service recently are included in the Read More About sub-pages for each format. For many more, see my testimonials page.
If I carry out a transfer job for you, I would very much appreciate a few lines from you which I can add to the lists. Just send it by email, and your name of course will not be published.
If you prefer, you can instead fill out this form (a Word document). It should answer all of your questions and provides me with all the important details I need, so complete as much of the form as you can and email it back to me. I will then confirm the price, or best guess at the price, and let you know the address to send the tapes.
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. In which case, assume that the tapes are fairly full and send payment accordingly, I will refund any surplus by means of a cheque sent with your finished recordings. Payment is best by cheque to video99, but Paypal is also accepted (to colin@video99.co.uk, a small surcharge usually applies), or even good old fashioned cash and Postal Orders, and in the UK ask about Nochex if have this.
If you would like to speak to me personally, you can telephone during normal hours on: 01752 881652.
Not everyone needs their tapes returned once they have the DVDs, but if you do (and I recommend it), please remember to include postage costs. For a single video tape in the UK, this is just £2. 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.
When you receive your tapes back, you may notice that the record tabs have been removed or switched to the safe position. The first thing I do with a tape is make sure that it cannot be recorded on, so protecting your important recordings.
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